Multi touch interfaces are going to make a difference to how we teach and integrate technology.
Educause has released there latest installment in the “7 things you should know” series - Multi-touch interfaces - click here for the site and here for the PDF version.
If you want to watch a great video (Its a TED [...]
(with apologies for the tardiness)
Most of us have met them. If we teach in independent schools, higher decile schools or teach in more privilaged areas they are becoming increasingly common. Even the more short sighted of teachers can see them increasing as our future becomes increasingly electronic. Whether we call them Digital Natives (Marc [...]
Educational Technology Clearinghouse
http://etc.usf.edu/
This is a interesting site that is worth a visit. It has a variety of resources and materials for a wide range of subjects These are further broken down into year levels:
Arts: Dance
Arts: Music
Arts: Theatre
Arts: Visual Art
Career & Technology
Foreign Language
Health
Language Arts
Mathematics
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
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This was twittered this recently by Helen Otway. Smart Board Resources in the classroom.
This is quite a neat site the page lists a series of smartboard resources for various subject areas. Its worth a visit and a forage through the selection. The resources range across the school spectrum from K to 13 and cover the [...]
Recently, a good friend of mine (thanks Mark) gave me a old desktop. Its a celeron 1700 with 256Mb of ram, so nothing spectacular, but a usable and useful machine never the less. I have wanted for a while to have a linux box to play on. So when opportunity presents one must take it. [...]
Pivot is free product that I am using to introduce Animation and Multimedia to some of my students. Pivot is the creation of Peter Bone and is a simple, easy to use and fun product.
Pivot has a range of pre-made figures with different “Pivot” points on the limbs, so to animate you figure you simply [...]
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/46666
Educause has released their latest in the Seven Things you should know series. This installment looks at Ning. I like Ning, it was first brought to my attention by Sheryl with her excellent PLP sites - Powerful Learning Practice - for teacher education. A useful and flexible tool.
Here is [...]
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=Home
This is a neat little free application that is available for windows, mac or Linux based systems. Derek found this tool and blogged & twittered it.
Its a 5Mb Download and the program does not require installation just unzipping into a folder and running the executable (Win). Its got the beginnings of a good help [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo
This is a nice find, I spotted on Miguel’s diigo.
Its an interesting video on convergence of digital media, citizen journalism, blogs etc. In a Cartoon/animation style its 4 minutes long and is well worth watching.
It raises some interesting questions about privacy, freedom of information etc. From this prespective it has worth as a conversation and discussion starter [...]
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/46436
This is the latest in the excellent series from Educause. This latest installment looks at google applications.
Here is there blurb
“Google Apps is a collection of web-based programs and file storage that run in a web browser. The applications include communication tools (Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar), productivity tools (Google Docs: text files, spreadsheets, and [...]
