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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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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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...
View ArticleWordPress 2.7 blogging bliss
WordPress 2.7 has been released!!! This blog runs WordPress, as does a whole lot of the educational blogoshpere – Edublogs, Globalteacher, Globalstudent etc. I have been using it for a number of years...
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Webspiration concept mapping
If you are a big fan of Inspiration and Kidspiration the good news is that there is now an online version called webspiration. It is currently in beta but you can sign up to give it a run. The...
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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...
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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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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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A perfect flickr storm
I’ve just finished reading Sartz’s blog where he has been discussing the usefulness of flickr in education (and making bad horse puns!) Flickr is a photo sharing site powered by Yahoo! that allows...
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Seeqpod – Playable search?
Searching for content within podcasts and videos has always been difficult given the nature of any audio or video file. While text is easy to search, audio and video is not! So the next best thing is...
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Free Moodle from ninehub.com
Ninehub.com is offering free Moodle hosting for anyone. Fantastic! Everyone who reads this blog will realise that I am a big Moodle fan. In fact, the very reason we registered the need2learn.net domain...
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Google Sky
Some of you may be aware that you can use Google Earth to view the sky. Well now you don’t even need the standalone application – you can do it directly from your web browser just like using Google...
View ArticleAustralia’s Digital Revolution
I’m not sure how long this website has been up, but the government now has a dedicated website for the so called ‘Digital Revolution’ to happen in Australian schools....
View ArticleScratch 1.2
A new version of Scratch (the free multimedia programming software) has just been released. This new release includes a number of new code blocks. A full list is here! The new blocks include volume...
View ArticleEmbeddable Google Maps
Google has added a great new feature where you can embed a ‘Google Map’, just like you can for a youtube video, a slideshare presentation or other web2.0 media. This is awesome, not only have I learnt...
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Teacher ‘scratch games’ are now live!
I’ve just uploaded a number of games created by teachers to the Scratch website. Well done to all those involved! http://scratch.mit.edu/users/smsn
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