links for 2011-02-01
EteRNA | Played by Humans, Scored by Nature. (tags: edugame science nature KS4) Fuzzwich – Animation for Everyone (tags: animation cartoon digitalstorytelling video)
links for 2011-01-28
Back in 2011 – I used social bookmarking tool Delicious to capture and share useful learning resources. It captures my first exposure to retrieval practice and wider reading / links and intention to “follow up.” Purdue Newsroom – Research finds …
links for 2011-01-27
Free email newsletter service | TinyLetter A way to share department of school news? (tags: news newsletter)
Microsoft Office Specialist Certification?
Back in November I attended a Microsoft Office Specialist Certification webinar, although in this case it was delivered by Prodigy Learning (Microsoft’s Academy Service Provider – MASP). This morning, I continued the conversation with Andrew Griggs, Regional Sales Manager for …
The Right End of the Stick
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. Sandra Day O’Conner
Anyone, Everyone can Succeed. Do our Students Know that?
Students who understand intelligence is malleable rather than fixed are much more intellectually ambitious and successful. Carol Dweck from Stanford University Our abilities are not set in genetic stone. They are soft and sculptable, far into adulthood. With humility, with …
links for 2011-01-25
http://www.smarthistory.org/ Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. (tags: arthistory learning reference)
links for 2011-01-24
YouTube – Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography – Language Stephen Fry on language (tags: english, language typography grammar youtube animation graphics) Text messaging 'improves children's spelling skills' – Telegraph (tags: english spoken language aqa3c) Guess the Title: Quick wits and fast …