links for 2011-06-01
Number Picture – Crowd-Sourcing New Ways For People To Visualize Data (tags: data visualization Infographic) Hey Kids, Build Your Own Video Games With Stencyl (tags: Gbl Gaming scratch)
Effective Teaching
Ways to spend your Pupil Premium (plus a great open source infographic programme!) The Sutton Trust, in conjunction with CEM at The University of Durham, has just released a report, “Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning” which summarises the …
Leadership Interviews
Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want. Applying for leadership posts can be, has been and often will be, an emotional and challenging process. Even when unsuccessful at interview, the long term reflections reveal true …
Stencyl for Game Making
Hey Kids, Build Your Own Video Games With Stencyl Although it’s getting a lot easier to build your own video games, many of the tools out there for doing so require you have a background in programming. Not so with …
Using Feedback as the Lesson
Before I get to the ‘Using Feedback as the Lesson’ post, there are a couple of pedagogical reflections / questions I wish to highlight / discuss with you and hopefully, as its the holidays, you might comment? A recent research …
Textify
Words that inspire, nay, letters that inspire…. Textify it. (Firefox and Chrome only). It simple and straightforward. Select an image, the text you wish to use to re-create that image and that is it, job done. In fairness, there are …
Do the Numbers Add Up for Education?
The numbers from Gartner Research are in. PC sales in 2011 are down from 15.9% to 10.5% where as, according to the Taipei Computer Association Worldwide sales of tablet computers are forecast to hit 50 million units, doubling to 100 million in …
Interesting Take on our Ability to Time Travel
jane hewitt has added a photo to the pool: from Great quotes about Learning and Change Pool: http://www.flickr.com/photos/janeh271/5776325147/in/pool-858082@N25