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 [...]
This week at school has been frantic, but here are some of the sites I have stumbled across this week 1. Colour Theory – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-designers-part-1-the-meaning-of-color/ How we use colour in our publications, presentationand website can influence how readable, useful and attractive our work is. THis is a good resource that will assist. Smashing Magazine, mark [...]
Here are a few more sites that have caught my interest this week. 1. Planet ebook – http://www.planetebook.com/ this is another e-book source with classic liturature avaialble for free. This is worth visiting and potentially saving on your text book budget. Also have a look at science books online – http://sciencebooksonline.info/ 2. National Science Foundation [...]
Its nice to have finished school and to have the time to catch upon some reading. Top of my list is another great publication from Pew Internet. Its quite amazing. (Caveat: The project is researching American trends) Here is a brief synopsis of the key points: 94% of teens are online 1 in 3 teens [...]
The wire has been disconnected for the last week as I have tried to catch up from various functions. However its plugged back in with some interesting sites that have application for science, english and more. 1. Medtropolis.com here is what they say in their blurb.” A webspace built for the latest health information [...]
Computerworld has reported that a recent study has shown that 10year olds are more engaged and have more fun learning maths while using computers. Here is one extract from the article “Calder’s research showed students understood some concepts more easily, and they encountered some concepts they would not have normally without access to the computer, [...]
PEW Internet has release one of their presentations – this one called Teens and the internet is from CES – Kids@Play Summit. These are some of the key points for me that make interesting reading. Key to this is that this is an American Life project. email – 22 years old – today 87% of [...]
