Twitter tends to be quite polarising. People either live and die by twitter or hate it. Many people have started a twitter account and never use it beyond the first forays and others dive in boots and all. For the latter, for the enthusiasts, twitter can become a key element of their social network or [...]
This is a great interactive graphic that takes information about what a person (In the US) does each day. The graphics is activity vs age and time with a wide breakdown of age, race, and employment based groups. This is very cool!
Click on the section on the graph to have a detailed breakdown of the [...]
I love, yes love, CMAP. Its a free mind mapping and presentation tool produced by the IHMC (the institute of Human and Machine Cognition).
This is a great mind mapping tool for the senior students. Its is straight to the point, simple, easy to use and simple. My senior students prefer this to the more colourful [...]
I have been working on a simple method of analysing teaching and learning technologies against Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. I have taken the verbs associated with each of the taxonomic levels and arranged them across a sheets and then added a column for the activity components.
The idea is that you take your activity and break it [...]
Its been a while coming but I have put together a starter sheet, this time for twitter the microblogging tool.
The Starter Sheet is produced under creative commons and can be downloaded from the Edorigami wiki
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fedorigami.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F06%2F09%2Fnew-starter-sheet-twitter%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘New+Starter+Sheet+%26%238211%3B+Twitter’;
addthis_pub = ”;
My ITGS class is starting the year looking at the Area of impact – Politics & government. We want to look at how President Obama has used and continues to the power of the internet and technology. He has his own twitter accounts (well his own might be a slight exaggeration) – http://twitter.com/TheWhiteHouse. He uses [...]
This is a good animation for Middle years biology/ecosystems. This is a great interactive animation of a simple food chain with extensions on the theme to see the impact of removing elements from the chain.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais/animations/foodchain/chainreaction.swf
The base site yields a large number of animations across a wide variety of subject areas. These are, for the most [...]
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 [...]
Derek Wenmoth twittered about the top 100 tools page. This is a page I visited last year and enjoyed – a good selection of tools and nicely laid out with a ranking system.
So It was worth a visit to see whats on offer this year. The page is full of really “neat toys” and I [...]
