Posted Thu, 10/23/2008 - 21:20 by andrew
Fantastic resource - Tag Galaxy.
Process:
Posted Thu, 10/23/2008 - 13:32 by andrew
Using the same set of Words i used for the Wordle example earlier, on the TagCrowd website I created the following:
Posted Thu, 10/23/2008 - 12:38 by andrew
COOL! Check out Wordle.com
I just made a really simple one of a few words I came up with.
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You can make a word cloud using a plain text grouping of words.
Posted Thu, 10/23/2008 - 12:16 by andrew
Check out Big Huge Labs. Great range of tools to use in school for using images. More suited potentially to Primary school (or maybe Middle) - but some cool tools.
I liked the Badge Maker tool
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Uses a Flickr account for a photo mosiac tool. One i made from a friend of mine 'cvan' from Flickr was this Mosaic:
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Posted Thu, 10/23/2008 - 11:52 by andrew
At one of the ever-excellent PD sessions up at the ICT Learning Innovation Centre today doing a session on developing capacity in your team with ICTs. Won't under-estimate the challenge! Ill put some stuff together from what i learn up here so check back soon!
Posted Wed, 10/22/2008 - 21:38 by andrew
"The Schools United website is the first networking site dedicated solely to the education community worldwide. It provides schools and staff with the free facility to share educational resources and experiences."
I just signed up my school to check it out. Will post more once i find out.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 22:55 by andrew
Johnny Lee, a HCI student from Carnegie Mellon university has put together an acclaimed video on how to create an interactive whiteboard using the Wii-mote. While they are reasonably expensive in Australia to play around with ($60+ from what i have seen), im lucky enough to have a Wii and im going to see if i can get this going in my class.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 21:30 by andrew
We are currently preparing students for jobs, which don't yet exist,
using technologies which haven't yet been invented
in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.
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This interesting presentation by Karl Fisch is called Shift Happens. Very confronting data, and also surfaces many questions of the role of teachers in the classroom.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 09:59 by andrew
Posted Sun, 10/12/2008 - 07:17 by andrew
Was sent this interesting link yesterday from a mailing list. It speaks about removing traditional PC labs from around a school, and bringing technology to be further integrated into the classroom.
