This is the latest in the series of starter sheets. This start sheet looks at the Word cloud generator called wordle – http://www.wordle.net
The starter sheet is available from: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
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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
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Tool or technology:GIS or Geographical Information System. Google Earth – Downloaded and installed client, internet connection required
Curriculum area:
Humanities
Synopsis:
This starter sheet looks at the power of Google Earth. While it only looks at one aspect of the tool, the Global Awareness Layers, particularly the Crisis in Darfur, this tool has a range of other uses in [...]
Starter Sheets
Link:
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
Tool or technology:
Google Documents Forms
Curriculum area:
Information technology
Synopsis:
Students use Google forms to structure, collate and process data on the level of piracy of music and software within the student community.
Google forms are an extension of the Google documents product http;//docs.google.com
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This is the latest installment in the starter sheets. This sheet looks at the use of a collaborative mind mapping tool in Mathematics.
Mindmeister is free in its basic addition and allows the users to collaborate on the map. The interface is simple to use and quick and easy to learn. Users are required to register.
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This is an update on the Advanced Search Rubric and exemplar as part of the revision I am undertaking on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
The update can be found at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/advanced+search+rubric.pdf
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy is found at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
You can also find starter sheets for searching at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets The starter sheets for searching and Boolean searches provide classroom exemplars [...]
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, [...]
Animoto is a video creation technology that takes stills images, text and music and creates short length (30 seconds – free) of full length ( > 30 Seconds at a subscription) It is simple straight forward and easy to use.
This starter sheet looks at this adaptable and easy to use tool. The “In the Classroom” [...]
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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Here is another resource for the advanced search starter sheet – this one is looking at boolean searches.
Click here for the PDF version of this resource. – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
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