Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district.
The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on the Future Edge. Both of these were brilliant. The content was exciting and dynamic. The afternoon was mine.
My focus was [...]
The more I use Voicethread the more I like it.
I like the simple GUI, the fact that I can produce media that contains, images, documents, video, voice and text. This is a rich tool for teaching and learning and one well worth using. I love that students can comment and reflect.
Starter Sheet – voicethread
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… was a little quiet on the blogging front as I prepared for 2 fairly significant events.
The first event was the opening of the new block at school by John Key. My part in this was running a video conference with my Year 13 class. We were lucky enough to have a colleague to conference [...]
www.search-cube.com
http://www.search-cube.com This is a visual and kinaesthetic search engine. The search results appear in the form of screen shots of the pages in a manipulatable cube. You use your mouse or cursor keys to orientate the cube and select the page you want to open. Hovering over an image will bring up a preview of [...]
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 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 the latest of the starter sheets – this one focuses on using the Google Advanced search to refine a search. The focus is humanities/social studies in the “In the Classroom” exemplar.
Click here to link to the PDF
Here are the images shots of the file.
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One of the main mediums we use for conveying information is the visual medium. Many of use are visual learners or multi-modal learners where one of our modes are visual. Many of use produce documents, websites, wikis or blogs but do we consider the principles of design.
This is a really good website that provides us [...]
I recently blogged about designing classrooms with particular reference to Auditory and Visual considerations.
http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2008/08/08/designing-classroom/
This article in the New Zealand Herald and on Massey University’s Website, reinforces and supports this point well.
The Massey Study shows a marked improvement in students achievement with the use of a sound system to reinforce the teachers instruction.
Here is a quote [...]
