Useful Links (weekly)

Scientific Calculator

AIDLT ~ A new voice in ICT Education Site of Australian Institute of Digital Learning and Teaching

Google Image Swirl A new way to search through Google Images, with a nice interface that let’s you look at images grouped by similarities

4Teachers : Educator’s Resources Resources from 4Teachers. Can be used to assist in developing lessons, web pages and [...]

Top Tools for Learning

It is that time of the year again. There are lists popping up everywhere. I started reading this last week and it coincided with some discussions about digital tools in other forums at work.
The Jane Hart has compiled her annual list Top Tools for Learning. It is always interesting to note the changes, what is up and what has gone [...]

Motivation by Dan Pink. A lesson for schools?

At this time of the school year in Australia, with holidays beckoning, motivation of our students is a hot topic. This is an interesting video of a TEDtalk about motivation. Dan Pink ,when looking at the puzzle that is motivation, starts with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always [...]

Using Yudu

Whilst looking at more ways for students to share their information with others, I have been investigating Yudu.
It is a free service and it allows the user to upload documents in various formats (Word, Excel, Powerpoint or PDF) to create a more dynamic, magazine style presentation. This way of presenting information looks much more interesting and [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Pandora’s Skull: All the Twittered Shakespeare Synopses Twitter version of synopses of all Shakespeare plays. Synopses of Shakespeare’s plays in 140 characters or less

The amazing web site of Shakespeare’s Sonnets The full text of Shakespeare’s sonnets with commentaries and pictures. Since large numbers of the sonnets are printed to single web pages, students can use their browser [...]

Why use comics?

I have been looking a different ways for Year 8 students to present some work at the end of the year. It is going to be part of an “Immersion week” of activities. Students will undertake various tasks that they will work on for the day. Different faculties are working on a range of topics [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Canadian Education Association Extensive Research on Transforming schools through social, academic and intellectual engagement.

Digital Libraries – Goodbye to Books? | Discovery2.0 Post discussing the future of books in libraries.

Welcome to MySafeSurf! Kevin Honeycutt’s Cybersafety and Cyberbullying Programs for GR K-6 and 7-12. 

Differentiated Instruction | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age This post offers a long list of links [...]

Book Staircase

I love the shots from the Fubiz site, “a staircase that builds within the framework of a library of arrangements: the books are placed between the steps. Original and very practical, the whole of furniture was conceived by the studio Levitate Architects based in London.”
Have a look at more of their fantastic photos of this amazing [...]

To ban or not to ban. Mobile devices in the classroom

I was reading a post (MP3 players in class) on the Grumpy Old Teacher blog. In this post the oft discussed topic of classroom use of MP3 players but it struck a cord with me. The idea of using the many and varied mobile devices that our students use (outside the classroom/school) in the classroom to enhance [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Adobe® BrowserLab Adobe BrowserLab is a browser compatibility service that provides designers exact renderings of their pages on leading browsers. Results are fast, with powerful tools to spot issues. You can learn more at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/browserlab/

Demos | Publications Demos publishes a wide variety of pamphlets, reports, collections and papers. Everything we publish can be downloaded for free. You [...]