My students are working on a unit standard that requires them to examine two past IT trends and analyse these and then to examine two current trends and predict how they will influence the future. One of the key trends that is impacting on Information technology and pretty much everything else is Moore’s law. Gordon [...]
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Default This site has a huge range of webcasts from the University of Oxford. There are a huge range of webcasts that are available here. These cases can be downloaded as MP4 format files. The topics are interesting and varied often with social contexts. These are more suited to the senior students. The site is [...]
http://www.myglife.org/ This is a site I will be visiting time and time again. Stuffed full of resources, this is a global project which allows students to create and share in the development of online games. While doing this they are breaking down barriers of race and creed. The site is clean, well laid out and [...]
Podcasting is an activity that can be achieved by students of all ages with limited resources. Using tools like Audacity or Garageband students (and teachers) can create high quality products. I have drafted a rubric for developing podcasts. This a higher order thinking task – Blooms creating level of activity. publishing-podcasting-rubric.pdf I would appreciate [...]
I went to google and I entered EDUCATION into the search field and was rewarded by over 1 billion pages. One of the skills we need and our students need is the ability to refine searches to be able to mine the vast mass of information out there. I am still on holiday, so I [...]
This is a draft on a rubric for validating information. The rubric looks at two aspects 1. Sourcing and validating information from multiple information sources 2. Referencing the data sources to support the students decision on validating information Comments and suggestions would be appreciated validating-rubric.pdf
http://www.dhmo.org This is an excellent website for teaching students about validating information. The site is well laid out, looks professional, uses well structured english, has few grammatical and spelling mistakes, refers to reputable sites and appears to be written by a suitably qualified professional or professionals. Everything we would look for in a site at [...]
This is another Rubric I have been working on. This is focused on two aspects of a threaded discussion. The first aspect is related to a simple reply to a post question or discussion. This is focused on the Bloom’s “Understanding” level. The second aspect is more complex and is looking at replying to a [...]
http://opencontent.org http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page I found this while I was foraging around for game resources to use with my students (they are just finishing their game maker unit and having a great time testing, playing and modifying other peoples games) I love people who share like this – opencontent is a blog, wiki and a number of [...]
http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm This is a WOW resource to find and use. This is a the directory and repository for resources from the US governments agencies. I have copied and pasted below the subject map. This is a site to use and use and use and use…….. Arts & Music Artists (87) Music [...]
