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Well it is time that the school got a new website – of course hooked into a blog – so we need a new home page. Here’s a quick video using Screen Flow and Photoshop CS3 to show the build process, speeded up a little. My plan is to a higher quality, wide screen one [...]
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My current obsession is with School TV. All started with a Cog Dog Tweet, and has grown. Just ordered some more lighting rigs for my converted TV classroom to go with the blue screen set up we did when we rebuild a few classrooms for Project Based Learning. A new professional backdrop rig should help [...]
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This is very cool and and very here and now. Nvidia are launching a new gaming card that images a game from 2 view points, so with a pair of glasses the game becomes 3D, the good news is that there are 80 games ready and of course the code is out for all developers [...]
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This cracked me up. Given the cyclic media beat up on the ‘three Rs’ and the comparisons with 60s education and today (kids can’t read/spell/count) etc., I found this very amusing. I am not sure if we’ve gone forwards or backwards. Is it the same debate?, looks like the same classroom!
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I’ve just joined http://globaleducation.ning.com and hope that I can extend my PNL to other classrooms delivering Web2.0.
Specifically, I posted a collaborative project request.
As part of PBL, students are graded on their communication and presentation skills, roughly every 5th week of our school term.
School Term Dates
2008
2009
Term 1
29 January to 11 April 2008
27 January to 9 April 2009
Term [...]
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And for those who loved Season 1, now you can get Season 2 from most reputable outlets.
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Here is a first look at the Project Based Learning in year 9. When you look at the blog, consider that this is 3 weeks work. In week 1, he didn’t know what a blog was, how to use it etc., I post this one because I haven’t stuck my oar in and suggested any [...]
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A site for creative minds to enter competitions and WIN money. Now if that isn’t an incentive for kids in school I don’t know what is /// Worth 1000. Time to learn and win!
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I am, I may modestly say, a gun at Photoshop, so I am hard to please when it comes to using anything lesser. Avairy is impressive. A collection of online tools to do a massive range of creative things. Check out some of the links … I must be slow, there are plenty of time-lapse [...]
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I am proposing that those teachers who are using 21st Century Learning tools with their students start school at 4pm and finish at 6pm.
In the morning they have a video conference from 9-9.30 to receive their tasks/projects and in the evening 2 hours tutorial face to face.
This reduces the traffic, saves the environment, and allows [...]
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