teaching and learning

Nice Commoncraft style Video

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I’m a bit of a fan of Will Richardson’s work, though I do think he’s a bit hard on teachers at times and not always recognising the good things that are happening. I guess that’s the stance you have take when you’re advocating wholesale reform of systems.
His most recent  article, Footprints in the Digital Age, [...]

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The k-12 Online Conference I blogged about back in May has just begun, with an initial presentation by Dr Stephen Heppell already online.  Details of his pre-conference keynote ‘“It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It?: So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was?” are available HERE and the full program for [...]

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Matt Esterman’s presentation ‘Delicious Blogs and Wikis: Using Web 2.0 technologies to enhance Student Centred Learning (SCL)’ followed on nicely from the keynote after lunch about the changing world of the learner tools.
It was based around a number of tools: edublogs, delicious, wikispaces, some of my favourites in the web 2.0 world currently. It was [...]

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learning to change
A powerful video that was part of Sherryl’s presentation at Expanding Learning Horizons 2008.

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I’ve written a little about the note-taking and organisaton tool, Evernote, before. It’s basically a note-taking tool that allows you to easily clip screen shots, bits of text, images etc. to an endless virtual roll of paper, easily searchable as well.
Well, recently Evernote announced a web-based version rather than the stand-alone desktop application I’ve been [...]

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