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 [...]
I have recently updated Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy to version 3.0. This version includes starter sheets and refreshed rubrics. It is probably still a little ragged in places so I would appreciate any suggestions and corrections.
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy V 3.0 in PDF
As usual the Bloom’s digital taxonomy is produced under a creative commons licience. I might [...]
10/20/30 is a rule for any presentation that was suggested this morning at a meeting. I quite like it though I can see some times when I would ignore it (He is talking about pitching a product to a venture capitalist – if there are any left). The rule is proposed (see youtube video) by [...]
One of the jobs I have, is running the preliminary staff induction for the new staff attending the school. The week or two before school starts we have the new staff in and we give them some basic training on key tools. Follow up training is provided by the faculties trainer.
So over 4 sessions (about [...]
Another resource from Educause. This latest installment of the seven things you should know series looks at lecture capture. Here is the synopsis from the educause site:
“Lecture capture is an umbrella term describing any technology that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make it available digitally. In its simplest form, lecture [...]
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, [...]
This is a starter sheet looking at Adobe’s Flash based online word processing tool – Buzzword.
http://www.buzzword.com
The starter sheet looks at the basics of the product plus it looks at the collaborative aspect as a tool for group work in students working on science experiments.
The starter sheet is available in PDF format here – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
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This is an update with a worked example of the use of a wikispace in a classroom situation. The information sheet like the others covers a basic outline of a wiki and some alternatives to the method identified detail and the second page covers an example in the classroom.
Wikispaces Information Sheet
Linked to this is a [...]
Lee LeFever at the commoncraft show have produced another of their excellent “in Plain English” videos.
This one is Microsoft windows live http://www.commoncraft.com/windows-live
This is another excellent resource for professional development and teaching & learning.
Here are some other recent videos from Commoncraft:
Phishing scams in Plain English
Web search strategies in Plain English
Social media in Plain English
addthis_url [...]
Recently, two colleagues of mine have run foul of the appraisal systems within their schools. Both are leading ICT innovators, both are competent teachers and both are seen as leading examples (and in one case is an award winning teacher for the use of Technology) of the use of technology in the classroom. While obviously [...]
