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21st Century Education in New Brunswick

0s · Published 22 Aug 11:42

I recently came across this video from the New Brunswick School District in Canada that really captures the shifts that ‘should be‘ happening in education and the shifts that are happening in society at large. It reminded me a little bit of the ‘Did You Know‘ videos. I particularly liked the quote that “Today’s pen and paper [...]

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View & Interact with Scratch Code Online

0s · Published 14 Aug 01:54

Many educators use the multimedia media programming language Scratch with students to promote creativity, programming and ICT skills. In the past, you could always view the thousands of community projects online but if you wanted to play with them, see the code and change things, you had to download them and open them up in the [...]

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Create Digital Texts From Your Blog Posts With Anthologize

0s · Published 08 Aug 10:47

I have recently discovered a great WordPress plugin called Anthologize. It was built as part of the One Week One Tool project. It essentially allows you to create electronic texts from blog posts. You can create texts in ePub, pdf, TIE, or RTF formats. It also allows you to create chapters to organise your content. This [...]

Here come the tools – mobile ones!

0s · Published 16 Jul 03:45

In the last few weeks there have been some really interesting tools emerge for creating games and applications on mobile devices. These software tools will make it easier for the non programmer to create. GameSalad The first one I came across was GameSalad for developing games on the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. It is Mac only but [...]

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Scratch 2.0

0s · Published 19 Apr 23:32

I’ve been using scratch versions 1 through 1.4 with students to create multimedia and interactive projects for at least a few years. It’s programmable multimedia and it is a great piece of constructivist software. Students love using it and it has a low entry point but high ceiling. Well now we get a peak at what [...]

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Xinha for Web Forms

0s · Published 21 Feb 05:25

One of the things that annoys me most is when I have to use technology that should be based on open standards but isn’t! A case in point – Microsoft’s Share Point. It’s a web based CMS very tightly tied to the Microsoft browser and Microsoft office products. It’s hard to get anything done unless you [...]

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Should we compare the iPad to the netbook?

0s · Published 02 Feb 03:19

All of last year I was working with teachers and students to help implement a 1:1 computing environment with netbooks. Given all of the press around the ‘iPad announcement‘, I’m wondering what are the pro’s and con’s for this device in education? And how does it compare with other portable devices such as netbooks? Is it [...]

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Still Scratch-ing an Itch with a Moodle Course

0s · Published 01 Oct 02:23

For some time I have been meaning to finish my Moodle course about Scratch. It has been on the back burner for at least a year! The course itself is mostly finished but has a few areas which desperately need some attention. I was hoping to finish it and put it on Moodle Commons like [...]

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Introduction to Freemind

0s · Published 24 Jun 01:22

The ’1 to 1′ netbook project journey continues! This week we are looking at the free and open source mind mapping tool called FreeMind. You can download FreeMind for Mac, Windows and Linux. In this video I give a brief introduction to some of the features available when using FreeMind. You can also download the [...]

Playing with Google SketchUp

0s · Published 28 May 00:01

As part of the ’1 to 1′ netbook project, I have been working with a number of schools to look at how Google SketchUp can be used in the classrooom. And while there are plenty of good videos to show how to get started with the tools, I wanted to try out a new screencasting [...]

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Episodes

21st Century Education in New Brunswick

View & Interact with Scratch Code Online

Create Digital Texts From Your Blog Posts With Anthologize

Here come the tools – mobile ones!

Scratch 2.0

Xinha for Web Forms

Should we compare the iPad to the netbook?

Still Scratch-ing an Itch with a Moodle Course

Introduction to Freemind

Playing with Google SketchUp

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