This is an interesting infographic – Is social media ruining students?. It addresses social media and education posing as it does some interesting challenges for us as educator. If you have a look at the stats for facebook it adds weigh to the comments expressed in the image. Consider these as you read below: (source: [...]
Its been a while but with the impending demise or sale of Delicious by Yahoo! I have created another starter sheet, this one is for Diigo – another social networking tool. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+Diigo.pdf This starter sheet has an overview of the use of the tool and some of the key features it has. It also examines [...]
There’s Facebook, facebook and more facebook. Between the movie about facebook – The social Network – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network and times man of the year http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html Facebook and its Developer/creator Mark Zuckerberg are getting huge publicity. Not that it really needs it with over 1/2 a billion people on the network – http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics I love facebook and [...]
This update is focusing on online dictionaries. 1. Article -The end of printed dictionaries – http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/is-this-the-end-of-printed-dictionaries/ This is an interesting article from the Times about the future of printed, paper based dictionaries. It raises some interesting questions and is worth reading, particularly when you see the plethora of dictionaries available on line. 2. Oxford Dictionary [...]
Here are some more interesting sites that might well be worth looking at. Science, Humanities, productivity tools and online video editing 1. Microsoft 2010 Posters – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2010/06/21/free-classroom-posters-for-office-2010.aspx This is from the Microsoft UK education site. There are free posters for the key applications in MS Office 2010 . Here is the URL of the World [...]
Well, it is a mixed bag today – a couple of applications, a tag generator or two, a video or 2, an infographic… Yep, a mixed bag! 1. Prezi – http://prezi.com/ this is an online presentation tool. This one of a growing number of tools that are available. Another one I like is Adobe Acrobat [...]
Here are some excellent video resources that are well worth checking out. They are not in any particular order. 1. Teacher Tube – www.teachertube.com This is a user produced sharing site suiting primary to senior years students. A great resource and one of my favourites. Become a member and you can download the content. 2. [...]
Here is what is on the wire this week. 1. Teen Content Creators - http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/The-Power-of-Youth-Voice.aspx I posted about this rewcently. This is an excellent report from PewInternet. Wellworth reading and downloading. 2. Google Dictionary – http://www.google.com/dictionary is there nothing google isn’t doing. This is another tool in the already full google stable. 3.Brain Games. http://www.proprofs.com/games/ [...]
The number of websites that have come across my desk this week is quite outstanding. There are some great resources here that will suit many subjects and curriculum levels. 1. Working on the food chain – http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/storybooks/foodchain.html this is a simple explanation of a food chain. A good resource suiting younger students – upper Junior [...]
In this weeks catch from the net we have Mathematics and data sources, infographic maps, web 2.0 tools and more. 1. The Maths Apprentice – http://www.mathapprentice.com/Activity/explore.html – this is a fun primary and middle years site for mathematics. Directed at the younger audience. Worth considering using with an IWB. 2. Kids online – me and [...]
