This is the next starter sheet in the assessment series. This starter sheet looks at using the versitile and adaptable workhorse Voicethread http://voicethread.com to provide rich formative feedback to the students in text, audio or audio-visual mediums. Students are able to develop and upload presentations and then narrate these leaving voice comments as narration on [...]
Last night I was a guest at the National Library for the round table discussions on the services to schools provided. It was a fascinating session and one I really enjoyed. The session was looking at the future of the national Library service through the lens of a SWOT analysis the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and [...]
TVNZ has today reported that Rangitoto College is going to allow its students access to youtube and Facebook! Controversy!!! YOUTUBE how could they allow that and Facebook …. OUTRAGE http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/college-keeps-youtube-facebook-in-digital-strategy-4457086 I mean, really, what planet are they living on? My students make very good use of Youtube, they access how to videos, revision clips and [...]
On of the many concepts I got out of the Workshop on building future focus schools was sustainability. The concept is obviously not new, but its critical. Whether it is sustainability in terms of professional learning and development of pedagogy or sustainability in the use and reuse of learning spaces, its critical. Professional learning, isn’t [...]
But apparently this is a quiet ride on Japan Rail. Apparently for it to be crowded you have to have at least 7 people making contact with you. I have to say I love the trains here. There are so many reasons for example they have trains, the trains work (thats when you have them), [...]
We no longer live in an industrial age. Our students are looking at a world where they will not have a job for life. Last century you could be employed by one company for life. You could have a career for life. Sir Ken Robinson, in his famous TED – Schools kill creativity – said [...]
As part of preparing for a series of presentations at various conferences this year, I have developed six quick sheets for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. These resources outline the different taxonomic levels and provide the Digital Taxonomy Verbs with some (this is not exhaustive) possibilities for classroom use. For the complete Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy go to [...]
Happy New Year, I hope the festive season has been good to you all as it has been to me. Here are some New Years websites that may be of interest. Something here for Humanities, digital citizenship, Music, science, technology 1. Protecting reputations online in plain English – http://www.commoncraft.com/protecting-reputations-video Lee LeFever and the team at [...]
My time in Mumbai has been frantic. Over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I ran 12 one and half hour long sessions on the ITGS syllabus and assessments. It was intensive, demanding and immensely beneficial. I frequently refer to Dale’s learning cone in my presentations and consider it as I teach, but this workshop reinforced the [...]
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 [...]
