Sep
24
Portal to Media Literacy
September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
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May
17
The Romantics
May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Watch BBC — The Romantics — Episode 3 — Eternity in Educational | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
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May
12
Stick figure Hamlet
May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As the title says, Hamlet in stick figures. This is awesome!
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Apr
19
Siftables – toy blocks that think!
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?”
http://www.ted.com
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Apr
19
Cool science sites
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Hunkin’s Experiments has some cool science acitivites aimed at primary school age students.
“Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin.”
My personal fave: How to [...]
Apr
19
Philosophy for Kids
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Philosophy for Children is a site that aims to promote deep thinking, reasoning and verbal skills by asking philosophical questions based on children’s books such as Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
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Apr
19
PicLits
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
What is PicLits.com?
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of [...]
Apr
19
What is Shmoop?
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“Shmoop is lovingly created by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities – primarily Stanford and U.C. Berkeley. Many of us have taught at the college and high school levels”. There are some excellent resources for teaching literature and history here.
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Apr
19
Keeping it simple
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Effective writing is often characterised by simplicity and George Orwell’s rules for writing are as relevant as they were 50 years ago:
I think the following rules will cover most cases:
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
(ii) Never us [...]
Apr
19
Conversations in the digital age
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
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Apr
19
Twouble with Twitter
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
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Dec
10
It’s an E(ngelbart) world
December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Sharing knowledge has fundamentally changed our world. That was the message from futurist Mark Pesce, who delivered the keynote address at the 2008 Innovative Technology in Schools (ITSC) Conference in Sydney.
Part of the Digital Cultures Program at the University of Sydney, Pesce discussed the Ruby Anniversary of the most important day in the annals of [...]
Dec
9
ITSC Blogs and Wikis
December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Itsc 08 Web2
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education web2)
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Dec
8
ITSC 08 Blogging Workshop
December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
ITSC08web2 Blogs
Publish at Scribd or explore others: Education web2 itsc08
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Nov
30
Networks and Connected Learning
November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This video describes how students can use the web to create a powerful learning network. Created by Wendy Drexler, The Networked Student, was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Drexler’s high school students as part of a Contemporary Issues [...]





