Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district.
The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on the Future Edge. Both of these were brilliant. The content was exciting and dynamic. The afternoon was mine.
My focus was [...]
This is a voicethread tutorial using Voicethread. The slideshow goes through the steps of registering as a user and creating a voicethread using a basic free account. Voicethread is a great tool for multiple sensory learning styles as you can add images, voice and text.
The URL for this Voicethread Tutorial is http://voicethread.com/share/558435/
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The more I use Voicethread the more I like it.
I like the simple GUI, the fact that I can produce media that contains, images, documents, video, voice and text. This is a rich tool for teaching and learning and one well worth using. I love that students can comment and reflect.
Starter Sheet – voicethread
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This is a nice and useful visual search tool that Google has added to its search engines results page. The tool allows you to visualise your search results and then select and extend from the original search.
First step – Load google and run a search. Then Select Show options
Then Select Wonder Wheel
Having done that [...]
This is a great visual search engine with the added bonus of being able to compile the notes into a notepad for further reference.
The site is eyeplorer http://www.eyeplorer.com/eyePlorer/
You start by entering your keyword into the keyword field – then start the search.
The search returns and as you hover over the keywords you can drag the [...]
… was a little quiet on the blogging front as I prepared for 2 fairly significant events.
The first event was the opening of the new block at school by John Key. My part in this was running a video conference with my Year 13 class. We were lucky enough to have a colleague to conference [...]
At learning at schools 09, in Rotorua, I am presenting two papers one on Learning styles and learning tool and a second on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
The First paper on learning styles and learning tools is looking at VARK and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. I have had resources on the Edorigami wiki for VARK for a while, [...]
www.search-cube.com
http://www.search-cube.com This is a visual and kinaesthetic search engine. The search results appear in the form of screen shots of the pages in a manipulatable cube. You use your mouse or cursor keys to orientate the cube and select the page you want to open. Hovering over an image will bring up a preview of [...]
This is the latest installment in the starter sheets. This sheet looks at the use of a collaborative mind mapping tool in Mathematics.
Mindmeister is free in its basic addition and allows the users to collaborate on the map. The interface is simple to use and quick and easy to learn. Users are required to register.
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This is another starter sheet resource available on the Edorigami wiki.
Tool or technology:
Mixbook – an online publishing tool that allows the user to create, edit, share and publish their work in a digital or hard copy format.
Curriculum area:
English
Synopsis:
Students use Mixbook to create their own portfolios of poetry in a variety of Genre, styles and forms, [...]
