Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

Last week I put in my choices listing my 10 top technology tools to help build the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010.   Jane Hart has, since 2007, been building an annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide.  She has asked learning professionals worldwide (e.g. teacher, academic, trainer, consultant, developer, practitioner, [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

ClassChats.com ~ Connecting Students, Teachers, and Classrooms Worldwide  This is a social network that has been set up to help educators connect world wide. Many teachers are starting to use this site to match up with other classrooms and skype and video conference between them. Classrooms can communicate via chat, webcam, interactive whiteboard, forum posts, and [...]

School libraries – their design and use

Thanks to a tweet by Ruth Buchanan about a post on her Skerricks  blog I found this video. It can be found here. (You are supposed to be able to embed it into a WordPress blog but it didn’t work for me so I have put in some screen grabs but they don’t really do the video [...]

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 [...]

The Big Bang – Briefly

Science can be amazing. There are many inspiring stories and so many ways to tell them. This video story is about The Big Bang – Briefly. We made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood. This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with [...]