Google Maps Extras
Google maps is my ‘directions’ site of choice. Reading around last week I came across a few hidden extras. Look between the four-point navigation tool and the zoom slider and you will see a little button. Click on that little …
Year: 2010
Teach Meet Moodle
I am really pleased that @MoodleDan has proposed TeachMeetMoodle (TMM). May 3rd is fast approaching (Moodle2Beta)and so the Moodle landscape has the potential to evolve quiet swiftly / dramatically, albeit quiet slowly in terms of most school Moodles. Where are …
Curriculum 2010
Since January 31st OCR have been failing to meet their own deadlines. Friday, some three months late, OCR National were reaccredited on the NQF. Speficially the ICT qualification ‘will be available from August 2010, and the revised units are available now.’ What …
Simple PPT Rule
There’s been a few ppt articles recently and one sent to me by our GTP from the NY Times. One of the articles directs my back to Guy Kawasaki’s blog (inevitable when you read anything ppt) and his 10/20/30 Rule …
What’s Hot in Moodle
In reviewing the ‘plugins’ that would enhance teaching, we have recently added Nanogong and Presenter. Over the weekend I was looking for a way our students could improve their self assessment skills. Whilst browsing through the Moodle mods and plugins, what …
Bluetooth Lacks Bite
From the time we started to planning our Laptops4Learning (L4L) project, we have been interested in Bluetooth technology and broadcasting. The thought being that as our netbook population grew, we could share school communications with a wide student audience for little …
How Long Before…
I am sitting in the garden, relaxing, watching my little boy ‘pottle’ and play (Saturday 24th). I have a Twitter conversation in the background talking and exploring Teach Meet Moodle and I am browsing my RSS feeds. Meantime I have …
Gapminder Updates – Great Post
Hat tip to Dan Stucke for his great post on the updates to Gapminder.org …a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. (Dan Stucke) Like Dan, I too have …