Posted on October 31, 2008 by Rhondda
What can I say? Another tool that allows you to search Flickr for images. FlickrLeech is another very simple tool to use. You can choose to search through photos using tags or for a particular user, group or interestingness.
You can also choose how you want the interface style to look, (I preferred the “dark” setting), what [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2008 by Rhondda
Looking around the web today for ideas for teaching using web2.0 tools I found the following site.
The Web2.0 Wednesday Weekly Challenge offers tutorials on a variety of Web 2.0 tools, with an emphasis on Goggle tools. There are many tools listed down the left-hand side of the site, with very easy-to-follow instructions and there is [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2008 by Rhondda
Whilst I was on-line this morning up popped a couple of emails, One was sent by a teacher and it included the photograph below.
I looked around the web and found a blog, CFRU 93.3fm Election Radio, which posted the photo with the following text
It would seem that the credit crunch is having a really significant impact in the UK.
Even [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Rhondda
I am still working on creating a good collection of resources to explain copyright, fair use/fair dealing and Creative Commons. I came across this slide collection on Flickr. It is a short tale of copyright and fair-use.
A Tale of Two Fish http://www.flickr.com/photos/yiibu/sets/1474876/show/ It is best viewed as a slide set and sets out the differences between Copyright [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Rhondda
Last year I read about the Free Rice site and then a member of our RE staff also sent it around. Since then it has occasionally come up again. When I looked at the site again I saw some changes on the website that I thought I would let you know about. If you haven’t seen [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2008 by Rhondda
I was listening to a news radio broadcast this morning. An item, from a BBC transmission, was broadcast and I thought that it sounded interesting and useful for students of literature.
The British Library has a huge archive of recordings of many of the famous writers of the 20th century. These were sitting in their archive vaults until someone had the idea [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2008 by Rhondda
Here is a new video explaining the basics about phishing and how to avoid getting caught. It is from my favourites, Leelefever, and called “Phishing Scams in Plain English”. These are such great little videos to help people get a handle on some of the intricacies on the web, although I’m not sure where “Zombies in [...]
Filed under: Education, Video, Web2.0 | Tagged: anti-phishing, Commoncraft, internet, leelefever, phishing, Plain English videos, scams, security, spam | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 25, 2008 by Rhondda
I have had some trouble getting some of the slide-shows onto my blogs but one that works very well is Gickr. You can create an animated GIF on-line. It is free, very easy to use and you can upload photographs from your computer or from Flickr. I have tries both and each works well. It claims [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Rhondda
At this time of year teachers can start to become a bit more tired a bit more jaded. They are coming into the final part of the school year and are getting ready to write reports. I have been lucky as student work in the past two weeks has really energised me.
I have been working with [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by Rhondda
I was catching up on reading Anne Mirtschin’s blog, On an e-journey wih generation Y, and found her post on Digital pedagogy written on October 20th. In this post Anne discussed how her blogging and other teaching projects, be it with web2.0 technologies or not, fits in with the excellent Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT), developed [...]
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