We’ve noticed that our students are getting lost!
Navigating the campus is easy. Things are usually the same, buildings don’t appear and disappear that often. Our rooms have numbers so it’s pretty easy to locate the room that has their science lesson in it. We also have bell times.
Bell+local knowledge+subject=class.
This is something that they are [...]
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A Digital Education Revolution – Realising the possibilities, managing the realities – education.au
tags: event
Wax Audio | MASHOPOLOS – 2007
tags: mashup, music, cool
Ewan Macintosh – Awesome EduTech guy
Ewan in the Moodle/Games in Edu A list blogger. Great insight, creativity and action!
tags: blog
Machinima.com – Lip Flap
Lip Flap
tags: machinima.com
Greenbush Edusim – Annotated
Got IWBs? – this is a 3D [...]
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marist1_006.bmp, originally uploaded by Dean Groom @ large.
Been busy this week going to some SL Edu events at Jokaydia and in-between, making some major upgrades to the space we share in Skoolaborate. Added some urban planning, deleted some ad-hock stuff and have been collaborating on developing new units of work. More images of the build [...]
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Finding Images Online – beyond Google
UK produced infomation sheet about helping students find images as visual literacy and not just Googling a world. Helps with visual planning and thinkinig. Can download this as PDF.
tags: image, search
City of Lost Angels – A Dark Roleplay Community in Second Life
tags: roleplay
SourceForge.net: slat
tags: slat, secondlife, animator
Auto Otaku: Car and [...]
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On 13th April 2008, a bunch of teachers got together and discussed the need to begin a debate with our communities about a range of issues facing 21st century teaching and learning. Not to blame or point the finger, but to begin a global conversation around the shift away from the read only internet, to [...]
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Something I looked at then went back to Del.icio.us a while ago. Then along came Mr Motivator, Alexander Hayes who has set up a very cool group. So I downloaded the Diigo toolbar and have not looked back. I must say that Twitter, which is now the backbone of my PNL has made Diigo [...]
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Students were introduced to Teen Second Life in our Skoolaborate Island. The initial challenge for students (year 9 -14/15 year olds) is to learn about creating their avatar. They never have any major issue working the basic navigation controls, and soon figure out how to adjust the body shape of their avatar.
They do however, want [...]
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Growing up online is a documentary, recently shown on SBS in Australia (though I think it was a re-run). It is a good resource to use in class as a discussion topic surrounding the read/write web. I didn’t show the second part of the film, which I felt was a little alarmist and biased – [...]
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* Day 3 UPDATE – kids moved rooms, now running 8 PCs and going to extend to 20 by the end of the week. They are already working on a business plan!
This term, the year 10 Information Software Technology unit of work was Networking. Previously, this theory topic culminated in a written project in which [...]
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