Simple Ideas Shared
I’ll treat my username and password like my toothbrush – I will not share it, nor will I try to use any other person’s username and password. (Ivan Langton via Twitter) I think that is how I will share the …
Year: 2009
The Laptops have Arrive for Some
For all of those schools looking at 1-2-1 solutions then this Teacher TV video is essential viewing. With our IT Manager and Governor, I went to visit Arnewood School this earlier year and must say I believe the video further …
Free Tools to Review, Well Four
Dropmind is a mind mapping two that comes in two flavours, desktop and webapp. Dropmind takes full advantage of Microsofts Silverlight to offer a powerful visualization tool, with no limits in thinking space. Next is BB Flashback, record any portion …
Using ICT in education
‘Dont ask how intelligent a child is, ask rather, how is a child intelligent.’ RM Educational Podcasts offer regular educational podcasts of real quality. In the most recent podcast, Dr Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, draws on his experience …
Google News Timeline
Wow, Google Timetlime. Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed chronologically.No more fancy spreadsheets or timeline tools necessary, although the later may still have their uses for non news items. What is more I mayhave …
Top Ten 10
Ten Commandments of eLearning by Cath Elli. Like many lists, each is pertinent to hersituation. So what would Mike Jenkins (our Moodle guy) and I come up with? 1 Put the pedagogy (not the technology) first Now I agree wholeheartedly …
The Future
Incumbents very seldom invent the future. (Eric Schmidt, Google CEO) Does that mean I need to be looking over my shoulder?
Doers
Inspiration can come from many different places. How about combining Honda commercials and Powerpoint presentations? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmh_H0Nyg4g] Well I saw this two minute, 10 second animated commercial, created by Ben Everitt, Sophie Bodoh and creatively directed by Tony Davidson, Kim Papworth …