Utility Belt
I am again wondering if teaching ICT is the best way to educate our learners at Hamble College and the best way to seep ICT into learning. In the past two cover lessons I have been able to introduce a …
Digital Learning
Technology, teaching and teachnology
Animoto Hits the Spot
Now I must admit I have always like this mini web app. I used it to create short films for family, for CPD and for mini showcase films of student events. I plan to create my first feature length animoto of …
Practicing What We Teach
The NEW curriculum states ‘explore the ways that ICT can be used to communicate, collaborate and share ideas on a global scale, allowing people to work together in new ways and changing the way in which knowledge is created.’ I …
Motion Tool
I am not easily impressed by the visual frills, but I do remember the passion and expertise with which Hans Rosling presented at TED and Trendalyzer, the visualisation tool he used to enliven his presentation. … I also faintly remember …
26.5 Hours a Day
I have squeeze a lot into today; reading my RSS feeds and sharing the best with my most immediate colleagues, tagging for those a few clicks away, browsing one or two selected websites. Listening to, (watching) and syncing my podcasts …
Dont Water the Rocks
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://vhss-a.oddcast.com/vhss_editors/voki_player.swf?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fvhss-d.oddcast.com%2Fphp%2Fvhss_editors%2Fgetvoki%2Fchsm%3Dac857586a4d9366fb4afbb60c24608ae%26sc%3D374573″ width=”150″ height=”200″ wmode=”transparent” /] Its been a long tough term and I thought I would summarise the journey so far using the web tool, voki . A very simple, easy to create animated character very popular with MFL teachers. …
Online Media
A number of staff have asked about showing online media in their classroom and sadly, many of the sites they use personally are filtered here in educationland and sadly I dont have time to support them individually, so here is my online response. In …
Trying Out AuthorStream
Just recently, I have been introduced to a number of PowerPoint to flash tools. iSpring Pro is FREE and converts PowerPoint to Flash. Net and simply add that option to Powerpoint itself.However, having used and liked the very reliable Slideshare, …