Game building and creation for learning
Last week I sent out an email to all Sunraysia Mallee Schools asking if any teachers were interested in using game creation in the curriculum. It’s the sort of constructivist/constructionist learning...
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Ed Tech Crew Podcast
The ‘Ed Tech Crew Podcast’ I do with Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com is now available on iTunes! We also have our very own domain name: www.edtechcrew.net We have just posted episode 5. Make sure...
View ArticleDid you know 2.0?
“Did You Know” is a video/presentation originally created for a faculty meeting by Karl Fisch in August 2006. It went ‘viral‘ on the Internet and has subsequently been viewed online by 5 million...
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Web 2.0 – Mashable Resources
Mashable.com is ‘Social Networking News’ site. They’ve recently posted a couple of great resources for doing photo and image manipulation online, and also for doing video editing online. Photography...
View ArticleCreating games with scratch!
Today we had a whole day professional development workshop creating games with ‘Scratch‘, which is the programming language developed by the ‘Lifelong Kindergarten Group’ at MIT. We had 23 participants...
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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
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...
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 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....
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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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