Lipdub Completed
It took us just over an hour to video 3 full length ‘takes’ and then a further hour or so to convert the files, edit the titles, add the soundtrack before uploading to Youtube. The students were amazingly patient as we waited …
Digital Learning
Technology, teaching and teachnology
WordPress? Tumblr? Posterous? Joomla?
A few more days into the project and we are faced with the ‘which platform’ decision. WordPress (which I use for my own blog) is IHMO excellent. It provides a wide range of themes, plugins, widgets and more. The initial …
WordPress 3.0 @ Hamble College
We have been waiting for WordPress 3 with its integrated multi-user function for a short while. Recently released, we are keen to investigate the impact of publishing student work as a motivational incentive. In my short time teaching with Web …
Prezi Delivers Moodle
Explore Prezi and you will find a host of interesting presentations. Here is one I found giving any new ‘Director of Elearning, very thorough overview of the learning platform. Copy of Moodle on Prezi
Kizoa
Sharing pictures made easy. Kizoa is a simple, effective slideshow creation tool with collaborative options. It took no more than 5 minutes to create my slideshow. With the freemium model you can create and embed, but you will need a …
Search Stories Video Creator
Google recently launched a new feature called the Search Stories Video Creator. This new feature prompts you to input up to seven search queries from acroos Google’s search features (including Images, Maps, and of cause web search), throw on a song …
Freedom to Make Mistakes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi How do we as teachers respond to incorrect answers? I like the % method, but there are others…. Well, that is 70% correct …
Security
A very simple, fun no-frills password checker. Think Yr 7 – think how to login and the importance of simple safe passwords. Just a thought, don’t test your actual password! Get your students to test fake passwords and ask them which changes had …