Bubbling Over With Ideas

Via John Johnston comes a link to bubbl.us, another really neat and easy to use Flash based graphic organiser. Though it is relatively linear with simple graphics, it is also very easy to generate concept maps. Linking is simple and the map moves around as you add to it. The sign up is simple though [...]

What Goes Around?????

I had an interesting do-da-do-dah experience tonight as I revved up the Sage RSS reader and scanned the feeds. Via Judy O’Connell’s blog, I was alerted to the new Aus Mac Ed blog. As a bi-platform user, (mainly PC but with a personally purchased Mac mini in the classroom for the students to use), I [...]

Is the IWB Jury In?

This entry should have gone into my SmartBoard blog but as I haven’t’ blogged there for some time I will put it here. One of my colleagues who now works with pre-service teachers at university is about to embark on a couple of major research projects related to the use of interactive whiteboards. She is [...]

Legalising Podcasts

As Web publishing in multiple formats becomes easier then so it becomes easier to transgress copyright laws. This is especailly so when primary aged students are involved. With little knowledge of the applicable laws yet at the same time the ability to capture and re-use with minimal change students can easily break copyright. One ponders [...]

Where Did I Come From?

I am in the midst of one of those “Where did I find that link moments?” which points up one of the real perils of this Web 2.0 environment. As a Firefox browser who mis-uses tabs seriously, (there are only 15 tabs open at the moment compared with around about 48 the other day [...]

Where’s The Gap???

I had and interesting experience earlier today when Rod, a friend from the local cycling group, came around for a bit of help with a project he is working on. He is at the moment compiling a history of cycling in our local area that is due to be published in the very near future [...]

iPodding Along

As a teacher who was fortunate enough to be allocated a number of iPods to trial in my classroom, this post on divergent uses of iPods from Paul Reid, the Digital Chalkie makes for fascinating reading. Though early days, the opportunities for taking school work anywhere are growing almost exponentionally.
Whilst on the topic of the [...]

Time To Travel

A colleague is off overseas as I write, (as I will be in a month or so ). In the past, (in fact it was my first blogging experience), I had used Blogger to keep the folks back home informed of our travels. Back then I also used a Yahoo photo repository to upload [...]

Walking The Wiki Way

Via the oz-teachers list over the past couple of days a number of members from the list have been requesting a set of notes that I have used at school to get teachers started with Wikispaces. (The notes should be on the web however the previous link is broken and I am madly trying to [...]

The Value Of Blogging?

If you are wondering about why we should be blogging then this post on the Value of Blogging from Christine Kerley’s blog makes interesting reading. Admittedly the group she has surveyed is in the marketting area, (some would say schools do this anyway ), but most of the perspectives rang a bell with [...]