By Darrel Branson
Technology in Education
I recently came across this video from the New Brunswick School District in Canada that really captures the shifts that ‘should be‘ happening in education and the shifts that are happening in society at large. It reminded me a little bit of...
I have recently discovered a great WordPress plugin called Anthologize. It was built as part of the One Week One Tool project. It essentially allows you to create electronic texts from blog posts. You can create texts in ePub, pdf, TIE,...
In the last few weeks there have been some really interesting tools emerge for creating games and applications on mobile devices. These software tools will make it easier for the non programmer to create. GameSalad The first one I came...
I’ve been using scratch versions 1 through 1.4 with students to create multimedia and interactive projects for at least a few years. It’s programmable multimedia and it is a great piece of constructivist software. Students love using it and it has...
For some time I have been meaning to finish my Moodle course about Scratch. It has been on the back burner for at least a year! The course itself is mostly finished but has a few areas which desperately need...
The ’1 to 1′ netbook project journey continues! This week we are looking at the free and open source mind mapping tool called FreeMind. You can download FreeMind for Mac, Windows and Linux. In this video I give a brief...
As part of the ’1 to 1′ netbook project, I have been working with a number of schools to look at how Google SketchUp can be used in the classrooom. And while there are plenty of good videos to show...
Podcast number 3 March 22nd, 2009. [ICTGUY0903.mp3 Running time: 24:52 mins, size: 11.5 MB] Download it here! Links Rob Sbaglia: http://lmultranet.wikispaces.com Rob’s Twittering: http://twitter.com/sbaglia 1 to 1 project: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/management/ictsupportservices/netbooks/ DEECD wiki: http://netbooktrial.wikispaces.com Loddon Mallee Region Ning: http://one2onelaptops.ning.com
Podcast number 2 February 19th, 2009. [ICTGUY0902.mp3 Running time: 10:37 mins, size: 7.4 MB] Download it here! Links John Pearce: http://johnp.wordpress.com Tom Barrett’s Blog: http://tbarrett.edublogs.org 1oo ideas: http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/01/26/100-interesting-ways/ Tom’s presentations: Google Earth http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_175fp5qg9d3 Interactive Whiteboards http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_106c9fm8j Google Docs http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft Pocket...
In term four of 2008 we ran an online professional development course for teachers through Moodle. The aim was simply to be an introduction to the world of web2.0 and how it might impact on the classroom. The course was...
Podcast number 1 February 3rd, 2009. [ICTGUY0901.mp3 Running time: 14:51 mins, size: 8.6 MB] Download it here! Team Building http://www.teampedia.net BBC News article on BETT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7830431.stm Skype in Schools http://skypeinschools.pbwiki.com How to embed http://www.labnol.org/internet/how-to-embed-in-html-webpages/6365/ WOW’s http://mrsleung.edublogs.org/2008/12/18/wow-website-of-the-week-posters World Without Walls: Learning...
WordPress 2.7 has been released!!! This blog runs WordPress, as does a whole lot of the educational blogoshpere – Edublogs, Globalteacher, Globalstudent etc. I have been using it for a number of years on many local school websites – Koorlong...
A week ago on the Ed Tech Crew Podcast we came across a presentation format called Pecha Kucha, which is basically 20 slides, times 20 seconds for each slide. So you end up doing a short, and hopefully impacting presentation,...
Podcast number 14 August 25th, 2008. [ICTGUY0814.mp3 Running time: 19:36 mins, size:18.1 MB] Download it here! Today’s Links! Math screencasts http://mathtrain.tv Alan November and the BLC conference http://www.novemberlearning.com/
Podcast number 13 July 20th, 2008. [ICTGUY0813.mp3 Running time: 12:22mins, size: 5.8 MB] Download it here! Today’s Links! Create PowerPoint for the web with 280slides – http://280slides.com Also mentioned http://www.sliderocket.com Mashable – 30+ Presentation services for the web http://mashable.com/2007/08/12/online-presentations Gone...
