Here are a selection of interesting articles on education, technology and digital citizenship: New Zealand Herald Defence force highlights social network dangers – http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10870096 – This is a Digital citizenship basic concept, look after yourself by not posting information that can potentially put you at risk. For these guys it could be life and limb [...]
This is a very useful site with a great list of different iPad applications sorted by subject areas and then these are broken down in to different categories. The applications are both free and paid subscription/purchase. For Example – Language Arts apps has sub categories for literacy reading practice hand writing spelling grammar graphical organisers [...]
I have been enjoying this summer break and having a little technology downtime. However the kids have been playing quite extensively on the iPads as the weather has not always been conducive to swimming and playing around outside. We have a wide selection of games on the iPad for the “kids” enjoyment and a couple [...]
For the last year, Harry and I have been working on the ipad applications book for high schools. The Book is called Apps for learning, and is published as part of the 21st Century Fluency series with my Colleagues Harry Dickens, Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes. This book has been a huge amount of fun [...]
In this update of on the wire we will look at the IAEA, some Biology, ITGS & Mathematics resources and more 1. IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency – http://www.iaea.org/ This is an interesting site at the best of times, but in light of the tragedy unfolding in Fukushima this site provides unbiased and accurate information. [...]
In this update of on the wire we have a number of useful sites for you viewing pleasure – these include sites for science, the environment, videos, chemistry, health & biology, mathematics and humanities 1. ChemEd DL – Chemistry Education Digital Library – http://www.chemeddl.org/ This is a digital repository for chemistry education resources. This is [...]
In this on the wire update we are looking at a range of interesting websites for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy – digital citizenship and creativity, professional developments and twitter 1. Sixty Symbols – http://www.sixtysymbols.com/index.html this is a physics and astronomy, plus a little bit of mathematics site. In the site are a collection of videos [...]
In this installmentof on the wire we have some neat sites and applications for you. We have…….. 1. Image grab – http://paul.glagla.free.fr/imagegrab_en.htm – This is a tool that allows you to grab images from video streams. It will do most formats except encrypted DVD’s. A useful tool for lesson preparation where the students are view [...]
In this update I have a great instructional video for the ipad and Mathematics, Digital Citizenship, free stock images and some interesting research on internet use. 1. ipad’s Hidden Keyboard Functions – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPDLDG-UD5c – this is a great little instructional video which will show you how to get special charactors and hidden keys on the [...]
In this update we have a range of sites that are well worth visiting. Stuff for science, Mathematics, IWB’s, Global Project and video resources. 1. Body Browser – http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ This is an iteresting site, that used HTML 5 and WebGL to allow the visitor to manipulate and explore a human body. Other than the limitation [...]
