Is text-only enough for today’s students?
An interesting post by Vicki A. Davis on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog. Basically, in terms of teaching students how to tell stories she asks if text is enough. “So, I ask, is text enough? I believe we...
View Article20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0
This is a great list of activities enabled by web 2.0 technologies. They mainly relate to the K12 sector (primary and secondary school level in UK) but some of the activities could be extrapolated into...
View ArticleRelease the Hounds
A great presentation by Chris Harbeck (blog) at the K12 Conference. He divides the presentation into 4 learning journeys involving blogging, e-portfolios and unprojects. Scribe posting - a ‘scribe’ in...
View ArticleHow to fold a T-Shirt in 2 Seconds
Mainly for Primary eds this one but worth a look if you’re interested in education full stop. Tom Barrett recently posted about an exercise in instructional writing in which he involves his students in...
View ArticleWikis and Blogs Rules Ok
I’m currently trawling through a number of educational wiki sites (supplied to me by Marija Cubric) at Examples of Educational Wikis (Web Link). So over the next few days I’ll be posting some examples...
View ArticleClass Scribing Rules
Really one for the Primary Eds here. Scribing is a process by which class activity is recorded by a student in terms of the topics covered, resources found, group judgments and arguments etc. The...
View ArticleA powerful idea about teaching ideas
Well I have a bad case of blogging guilt at the moment. Basically I’ve been busy working through ePortfolio resources as part of an upcoming StudyNet project and while I’m not working on that I’ve been...
View ArticleIf I were president
Via Vicki Davis’s blog a nice little video of primary school children engaging in an exercise in which they have the opportunity to be creative and, as Vicki observes, “envision themselves as making a...
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Anyone know what’s happening here?
What’s the SMARTBoard showing? It’s Wii Golf – a game! From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog. Tom Barrett has installed and setup a Nintendo Wii in his classroom for Year 5 and 6 students (that’s primary...
View ArticleQuestion – What uses Twitter, google Earth and Google Docs?
Answer: A 21st Century primary school class. From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog (Web Link). Another example of early school use of technology to enhance their learning. In this examples it’s science –...
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