In the first post we looked at those things that are driving us to change. These are the expectations of the wider community and our students. Having established the aspects that are driving our change we need to set goals and objectives.
When it comes to setting goals I like the SMART concept:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timely
The goals we set [...]
What are the software tools that we need to teach our students? I believe we can not be limited to just a productivity suite, we need a range of tools that we can use to enhance our students learning and engage them in a variety of activities. Here is my list of tool categories and [...]
A handful of the best is one of the presentations I ran at uLearn09. The basis of this presentation is a collection of open source, free or great proprietory tools that I use in my classroom.
While the “software for schools” deal does provide a basic productivity suite for computers in schools and an OS it [...]
The BBC posted a video clip from one of their roving technology reports. The reporter Rory Cellan-Jones is visiting a school in Kigali, Rwanda. The school has 3000 pupils and the students all have OLPC’s .
The clip shows the students engaged in various actvities using their OLPC’s as the report wanders around. Its great to [...]
I read an interesting article in the Australian computer magazine APC called “Say ‘No’ to facebook”. The article is talking about curing the addiction. teh addiction in this case is the preoccupation with facebook, but applies to most social networking tools.
The Author Samantha Rose-Hunt outlines 4 steps for this:
Setting boundaries
Ceasing notitifications
Thinking of the other thinks [...]
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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This is the latest installment in the Seven things you should know series, this one covering the increasingly popular trend of “Microblogging”
Microblogging, of course, includes that staple tool twitter. This paper looks at twitter and microblogging in general from an educational perspective.
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7051.pdf
If you need a how to sheet for twitter – use this starter sheet.
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Here are some interesting websites I have come across in the last couple of days.
1. ScratchEd http://scratched.media.mit.edu/
This is a cool site for educators using Scratch – the programming language.
2. Nutrition Toolbox – http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/nutritiontoolbox
This website looks at the nutitional content of over 40,000 foods. Select the food and it will tell you the number of calories [...]
I am involved in a change process at the moment. The change involves removing a software item and replacing it with a similar but different tool. The change has been signalled literally for years, but never actioned until now, so the people involved have never changed their use patterns to the new tool.They haven’t changed [...]
These are some of the more interesting websites I have some across this week.
1. Science World – URL http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Science resources from Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Astronomy
2. 12 essentials for technology integration – URL http://content.yudu.com/Library/A18dcc/TwelveEssentialsforT/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F59772%2FTwelve-Essentials-for-Technology-Integration
This is a very interesting article in the form of a e-book. Well laid out and excellent reading
3. Teaching with Smartboard -URL [...]
