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Blogs in Plain English
This is another great video from the folks at commoncraft. They’ve explained wikis and social networking in ‘Plain English‘ and now you can watch their take on blogs. Enjoy
View ArticleVideos for ‘Educational Change’
I thought it might be useful to post some of my favourite Internet videos on ‘Educational Change‘. With a new year started, we have four new coaches working in our district and many schools looking at...
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iPaper – more flexible options on the web!
I just came across a new technology call iPaper which looks really promising. It basically takes a large range of documents and converts them into the Adobe Flash format. This means that it will...
View ArticleProfessional Learning Opportunities in SMSN
Here is the flyer I recently sent to all principals regarding three professional learning programs that will be running in the ‘Sunraysia Mallee Schools Network’ in term 2. Online Curriculum using...
View ArticleTwitter in ‘Plain English’& the value of synchronous communication
Heyjude pointed out that commoncraft have another great video explaining how twitter works. While I’m new to twitter and still coming to terms with the nuances of the world of ‘microblogging/text...
View ArticleAnother video for teacher professional development
I recently wrote a post about videos to use as discussion starters for professional development when working with teachers, and particularly those that highlight the need for 21st century learning...
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Ed Tech Crew Technology Survey
The podcast I do with Tony Richards called the EdTechCrew needs your help. We have constructed a survey about software use and we need you to help fill it in. It is very short, easy to do and...
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ICTEV – Scratch in the Classroom
The 2008 ICTEV conference is on this Saturday with a whole variety of different ICT sessions taking place. I am fortunate enough to be taking a 2 hour session on using Scratch in the classroom. Scratch...
View ArticleTen things they didn’t teach you in college …
A humorous video via the Cool Cat Teacher blog. You’ll especially enjoy this if you teach in a primary setting!
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Will Richardson on the Ed Tech Crew
I don’t often mention my other podcast ‘The Ed Tech Crew” on this blog. However, in the past week Tony and I have been fortunate enough to have interviewed Will Richardson from weblogg-ed.com. Will is...
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It’s your Uuorld?
A couple of days ago the MathTrain sent through a link about an application called Uuorld (don’t ask me how to pronounce it!) This application reminded me of one of my favourite Ted Talks by Hans...
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Virtual Box – open source your virtualisation!
Virtualbox.org has just recently posted version 2.0 of it’s virtualisation software! For quite some time now I have been using Virtual Box, a free opensource alternative to virtualisation from Sun...
View ArticleChris Lehmann’s Pecha Kucha
A week ago on the Ed Tech Crew Podcast we came across a presentation format called Pecha Kucha, which is basically 20 slides, times 20 seconds for each slide. So you end up doing a short, and hopefully...
View ArticleVITTA Keynotes
I have been attending the 2008 VITTA conference this week and have been using “Cover It Live” to live blog the keynotes. If you are interested, check out the ‘live page’ here. The keynotes have been...
View ArticleGot Game @VITTA
I spent number of days at this year’s VITTA conference. The theme was “Shift Happens – Technology alone will not save us!” For those unaware of the Shift Happens viral video, you should look here....
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Free Web 2.0 Moodle Course for Teachers
In term four of 2008 we ran an online professional development course for teachers through Moodle. The aim was simply to be an introduction to the world of web2.0 and how it might impact on the...
View ArticleICTGUY0903 –’1 to 1′ netbooks with Doctor Rob
Podcast number 3 March 22nd, 2009. [ICTGUY0903.mp3 Running time: 24:52 mins, size: 11.5 MB] Download it here! Links Rob Sbaglia: http://lmultranet.wikispaces.com Rob’s Twittering:...
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Still Scratch-ing an Itch with a Moodle Course
For some time I have been meaning to finish my Moodle course about Scratch. It has been on the back burner for at least a year! The course itself is mostly finished but has a few areas which...
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Should we compare the iPad to the netbook?
All of last year I was working with teachers and students to help implement a 1:1 computing environment with netbooks. Given all of the press around the ‘iPad announcement‘, I’m wondering what are the...
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Xinha for Web Forms
One of the things that annoys me most is when I have to use technology that should be based on open standards but isn’t! A case in point – Microsoft’s Share Point. It’s a web based CMS very tightly...
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Scratch 2.0
I’ve been using scratch versions 1 through 1.4 with students to create multimedia and interactive projects for at least a few years. It’s programmable multimedia and it is a great piece of...
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Here come the tools – mobile ones!
In the last few weeks there have been some really interesting tools emerge for creating games and applications on mobile devices. These software tools will make it easier for the non programmer to...
View ArticleCreate Digital Texts From Your Blog Posts With Anthologize
I have recently discovered a great WordPress plugin called Anthologize. It was built as part of the One Week One Tool project. It essentially allows you to create electronic texts from blog posts. You...
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View & Interact with Scratch Code Online
Many educators use the multimedia media programming language Scratch with students to promote creativity, programming and ICT skills. In the past, you could always view the thousands of community...
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21st Century Education in New Brunswick
I recently came across this video from the New Brunswick School District in Canada that really captures the shifts that ‘should be‘ happening in education and the shifts that are happening in society...
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