Posted in tools and gadgets on Aug 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Google Maps, a handy little tool I often use when travelling around Melbourne, just got a little more powerful and a trifle scary with the introduction of ‘Street View’ in Australia, the ability to zoom in at street level on just about any street.
I’ve never seen them, but apparently little Google-branded cars have been trawling [...]
Posted in software, tools and gadgets on Aug 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
It’s about this time of year that we look again at the software list for next year’s notebook image; what’s new and should be on student and teacher computers, and what is no longer doing the job. I keep a bit of a list on a page here called Essential Software, which I must update [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tools and gadgets on Jul 20th, 2008 No Comments »
A little while ago I was in a meeting of Year 12 English teachers, discussing how the course is going, and planning for next year. One thing that got agreement from everyone was that we needed to improve the way we distributed newspaper articles to students for the language analysis task.
In essence, what we did [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets, videos on Jul 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Got my hands on very interesting little gadget this week; the FLIP video camera. Not available in Australia yet (thanks Teresa for organising a USA pick-up) except on e-bay (which I’m never going to use again after their recent paypal fervour) this little gadget is about the size of pack of cigarettes (remember them?), [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets, videos on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
A while ago now I remember talking with an educator who was keen on the possibilities of students creating animations and videos using engines from games such as the SIMS.
Apparently these games have powerful tools that can be modified to create your own content, rather than just playing the game. I seem to remember seeing [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets on Jun 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Wordle seems like a pretty fun tool to create word clouds, albeit in java format, which makes them hard to export unless you take a screen shot (like the one above) You put in some text and it creates a cloud which you can modify. I wonder just how MUCH text it might take. For [...]
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