Favoured Tweets
@gideonwilliams: A good day today with year 7s enjoying interactive fiction TTGBITN and jamie’s letter from school. http://twitter.com/gideonwilliams/status/164806729329160192 Sent with IFTTT
Textwall
This afternoon I had a very positive conversation with Lilian Soon from textwall.co.uk. In a nutshell textwall.co.uk it’s a response system where responders text, email, webpost their responses. Think Twitterfall for texting. Lilian gave me access to a sandbox account …
#ICT500
Let’s not walk the path well trodden. Whether here at #ICT500 or there at http://schoolstech.org.uk/about/ the discussion and debate of what and why ICT continues. There are valued observations to take from each of these arenas; Nick Jackson has wrestled …
ipadio: Hexagonal Learning
I am not going to write a SOLO taxonomy thinking post, I do not know it well enough, I haven’t I explored it far enough nor taught with it in mind. But I will. However the hexagonal tessalating idea, now …
Can technology change teacher practice?
I could not hold back. I just let it all out… Tom Whitby offers educators really great discussion. This afternoon I got caught up in ‘Can technology change teacher practice. When it comes to technology enhanced learning, I love the gadgets but I …
Programming the Wolfram Way
“Programming is to mathematics what composition is to English.” he said. “It’s how you express your creativity. Conrad Wolfram There is a strong validation for taking that programming and creativity and combining it with interactive fiction? No? Reflection on #lwf12 …
Whilst we are on the topic of Gaming…
“You don’t learn because your engaged. You’re engaged because you’re learning.” – Nick deKanter (Muzzy Lane Software) Muzzy Lane mane serious education titles. I think I am planning to recommend Making-history to our history department. Surely playing one or …
I Still Believe in 121
I have been suggesting that 2012 would be being the year of ‘digital text’ in whatever format or guise it might be. I did not, and could not, have known about Apple’s pending iBook revolution?! Possibly but only where there …