Last week I became a Splash ambassador. Splash is an Australian website run by the ABC which collates high quality content to share with Australian educators, parents and students. It includes videos, audio clips, games and interactives which can be used across all year groups.…
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Loading...As a learning technologist technology plays a large part in my life therefore it’s no surprise that I use mobile technology to support my own learning. Below are are the apps that I am currently using.
Notability – As the name suggests I use this app for note taking. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last year I started the /Teach wiki and filled it with a bunch of links out to resources, curriculum, descriptions and other useful tidbits of content designed to support the teaching of digital literacies and spread all over the web. The wiki became my own personal dumping ground to save resources authored by the budding Webmaker community.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Three years ago, I wrote my first post about Twitter.
If you are looking for a way to keep parents informed in bite-sized portions, Twitter may be a good solution for you as it can integrate nicely into a parent’s handheld lifestyle.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In 2009, while working at a large higher education institution, I had a student worker who was very excited about being accepted into the nursing program. Upon entering the bookstore, she was shocked to learn that her books for the semester would cost more than her tuition.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Sherry Hegstrom – Emerging Technologies in Education commented on a post by Jeff Utecht: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DISCONNECT?
Jeff asked the question:
Are you consuming, using or creating with technology?
And demonstrates the answer with a pie chart representing statistics on Internet participation.…
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A new year and some new projects for 2013 in the library! We don’t start back to school for a couple of weeks yet, but that doesn’t mean teachers aren’t hard at work. I been running across excellent resources for my new projects and get them organised before I forget.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Here are some web resources to keep you entertained over the holiday weeks, no matter what you are celebrating. Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access and management of structured data, […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Next year the Year 7s at our school will be bringing their iPads to school. This is part of the plan to answer the Big Question presented to our teachers at the end of 2011 –
…How does Vermont Secondary College better prepare its student and teachers to meet the challenges of the 21st Century?
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