I have mixed feelings about Piktochart. I like that it was easy to sign up with a Google account. As a free user there are not a lot of themed pages for you to access (just seven) and you have to move to a pro account to get access to more.…
Art and Design: Behance your students employability skills
Behance in an on-line portfolio and job site for artists and designers.
As well as uploading their work students can search the site for inspiration, follow their favourite artists and designers, show their appreciation by liking a post and leave and receive comments about theirs and others work.…
Empathy Map – Stake Holder – College Student
Week 2: Assignment
Liquid Networks and the Adjacent Possible
At ISTE this past June, I picked up Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From (reading notes here) and, after his fantastic keynote address, looked forward to reading it. After just finishing it, the book didn’t disappoint, leaving me with quite a bit to think about on the verge of beginning a new academic year.…
The Liebster Awards: Recognizing Smaller Blogs
10 top apps for library services
More than a little bit awesome: EduSlam – Best Practices in Teaching in Under 5 Minutes http://bit.ly/1elE72r
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Anyone using the video database at WatchKnowLearn? – Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students http://bit.ly/1elCmm2
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Hashtag Seminars
So we’ve been building a new digital humanities tool “Huma Bird Project” and we used it to analyse the #digped hybrid pedagogy chat on twitter
It shows some interesting possibilities for analysis
- Do people naturally get locked in to conversations (perhaps @ mentions favour # tweets)?
Using Desmos to Explore Polar Graphs
Yr 10 Advanced maths students are learning about polar form. After a brief introduction they were asked to sketch r =ø , and r = 1 – sinø using desmos.com to see what they looked like then asked to explore and take note of what they had discovered.…