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10 Awesome Tools To Get More Out of Wikipedia – by Dumb Little Man
In a recent conversations with one of my pre-service teaching students they made the comment that Wikipedia “was a somewhat unreliable website.” At the time I left the statement unchallenged. In the interim a couple of references to Wikipedia in … Continue reading
Popularity Or A Chance For More
In conjunction with the fast approaching ACEC2010 conference, (I have less than a week to get my presentations ready but who’s worried about that :), the organisers have initiated the ACCE Australasian Educational Media Awards. With sponsorship from Edsoft, the … Continue reading
A simple fix for Internet censorship in schools and Ultranet Queries
Schools and libraries are hurting students by setting up heavy-handed Web filtering software that block access to potentially educational sites. Instead, educators should trust teachers and librarians to oversee schools Internet access, says Craig Cunningham, a professor at National-Louis University. … Continue reading
Going Gaga Over Google
This last week one of the topic for my eet330 students to mull over was internet searching and naturally the first question was, “Well what do you use to search?” and of course the answer from all was the big … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Google, Search Engines
Tagged Diigo, Google, google apps, search
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Go, Go Edmodo
Quite some time back I had read somewhere of this new social networking environment, Edmodo, that was being promoted as Twitter like environment being developed by teachers with an education focus. Having signed up and posted my first post on the … Continue reading
Water, Water Everywhere, (and it’s all in bottles aargh!!!)
Via the fabulous Pete Mackay who since 1998 has been sharing links to all manner of educationally focussed websites on a weekly basis via The Teacher List comes a link to this disturbingly fascinating movie which so comprehensively encapsulates one … Continue reading
APPA On Interpreting NAPLAN Results for the Lay Person
With the end of first term fast approaching in many states teachers, their thoughts begin to turn to the “highlight” of 2nd term, the NAPLAN tests. Now that the results derived from these tests are being made public via the … Continue reading
Posted in Testing, Twitter, Uncategorized
Tagged Darcy Moore, Margaret Wu, Melbourne University, NAPLAN, report, Twitter
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Flat Stanley Tweets Round The World
Last Wednesday I was asked to head over to one of my favorite schools, Lara Lake primary school to do a presentation for the grade 3-4 students looking at new and emerging ways to communicate. The students had previously done … Continue reading
What’s A Ning?
Overnight I was asked to try to locate a quick presentation to show off to teachers who haven’t seen it, what a Ning is. Checking around I found quite a few Slideshares and YouTubes sort of dealing with the issue … Continue reading
Smartphone? Get Your Battery Life Extended
Like so many others I really like my iPhone except for the fact that I am tied to a charger. There are ways and means around this however as suggested by the following article from the New York Times via … Continue reading
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