This session was a little on the edge. The three presenters (two real and one virtual via skype) were pushing the boundaries of their presentations - they had a wiki they shared, google documents and forms, presenting ucing google presenter and skyping into the presentation to video conference. The bandwidth and wireless was flaky [...]
This is an interesting product - a 3D immersive mathematics game. Kids play in 1st person either individual or in teams. They have instructional modules followed by the games themselves.
Can be competitive between schools and districts. Neat
C-Map Notes
URL: http://www.tabuladigita.com/
Neat game interface, a fun approach to maths and adjustable into other subjects. Would be bandwdith intensive. [...]
This is an excellent collection of tools that have been categorised under three headings - Visual Learners, Auditory Learners and Kinestheic learners. This is a modified VARK format.
http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/
Its an excellent post and one I will be using to update my own resource materials on VARK.
The thing that excites me the most is that not [...]
Robin Good’s - A Beginner’s blog publishing guide
This is a really good resource for staff (and student) professional development. It covers:
what is a blog
why should I write it
platforms
blogging from the desktop
what should I write about
Publising your blog
image sources
resources
Its a thorough detailed and useful guide and one I will be using with m,y students and staff
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http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia
These guys are great. Another video from the Commoncraft Show.
I would have to say that these are some of the best professional development resources about. Simple, straight forwarded and fun.
Here is the blurb on the latest offering
“This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give [...]
www.aniboom.com
This is a useful site for animation. The site has two different animation tools that you can use. Shapeshifter and MicroSmotion
MicroSmotion, uses you web camera to make simple animations. Its simple and straight forward. It creates you movie as an animated GIF.
Shapeshifter, does not require a web camera. Instead you make your object and then [...]
http://www.uctv.tv
University of California Television is a great resource for studennts and teachers alike. The site hosts streamed video video on demand and audio and video cast on a wide range of subjects.
Teacher’s Pet or Professional Education for Teachers is a great resource for staff. They have resources for most subject areas and curricula:
Biology/Life [...]
I must be honest, I have not played seriously in second life. My lack of participation does not come from any philosophical agenda, from any technical impediment or from anything other than time. I think 2nd Life has great potential, but I don’t have time to exploit this potential.
Second life allows its participants to [...]
http://www.tweetwheel.com/
If you use twitter you may find this site useful and interesting.
Essentially it draws a relationship circle between you and your friends. As you hover over a follower its shows you who else follows (or has a relationship) with that person. Clicking on the person will open their profile. Here is my Tweetwheel. Simply [...]
Most of us have used google images to find suitable images for product we are creating. Well here is a specialised search engine for images.
http://elzr.com/imagery
The search does work quite nicely and the interface is cleaner than google’s images interface, but it renders out the much the same data for the search. Its a choice [...]
