Oct

25

Shakespeare – with a twist

October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment

Clay Burrell has an energy for teaching that is infectious – better still he’s full of good ideas.
His new Wordpress powered blog has a growing number of teaching resources that use read/write web technologies and collaborative learning strategies in engaging and purposeful ways. Among them is a link to his AP Literature class project, King [...]

Jul

9

Being the change you want to see

July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

In a previous post, Lighting Fires, Not Filling Buckets, I wrote about my Year 10 class which created some imaginative digital protest texts. The task was fairly open-ended and I was really pleased with the work these students produced. I have uploaded some of these to a protest wiki. If you get a chance, check [...]

Jul

5

xtimeline – could it make timelines interesting?

July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

History is one of my passions in life, but I’ve never found timelines very interesting activities. This could all change with xtimeline, which helps you create a timeline on any subject and multiple users can add information and still images to an ongoing project. You can set up privacy settings to moderate who can contribute, [...]

Jul

5

WikiMindMap

July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

WikiMindMap produces a mindmap view of Wikipedia content. According to the developers, it “is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wikis, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways straight [...]

May

8

The “Social Web”: Wikis, Blogs, flickr and more

May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Apr

23

Blogging in the Classroom

April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Teaching Tools blog.
This has information from the TAS PD day and is designed to help you set up blogs and wikis in your classroom.

What is a blog?
A blog is an online journal that can have one or multiple editors. It is a series of articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Students [...]