Posted in 21st Century Learning, Creativity, ICT, Learning environment, Uncategorized, hyper literacy, new literacies, personalised learning, reading, school culture, social networking, ubiquitous on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
NECC 2009 Birds of a feather gathered around the common cause of iphones and the exploration of educational uses of APPs and more.
What I learned . . .
kids want to be online all the time and given the choice of an ordinary handheld and an iphone or ipod the majority will choose the iproduct
many [...]
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On Monday morning we went to the NECC 2009 Exhibitor’s Hall. It was huge, vast, expansive . . . so American.
We were on a mission to get a Promethean and SMART t-shirt.
They made it so hard fill in forms, show a magazine bit of a hassle really!!!! Never did get the SMART shirt probably a [...]
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We had intended to walk from dinner to the hotel in the cool of the evening. The evening turned out to be a hot, wet and stormy night in Washington DC. After dinner we caught a cab.
We were chattering away in the back about the Conference and things we’d been doing.
The Cabbie was a middle [...]
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Walking through the Exhibit Hall the other day we met these two teachers from Chicago. They were really excited because the girl on the right had just won a Promethean Classroom.
She was over the moon! She was so enthusiastic about winning Promethean because she was aware of the company’s all encompassing philosophy of sharing knowledge [...]
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Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Future Learning, ICT, Learning environment, Uncategorized, cyber safety, professional learning communities, school culture, social networking on Jun 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
Craig Bellamy
In recent times the line between public and private has become very blurred to the point of non existence. Young people, young teachers, students all use social networking spaces to air their thoughts, their feelings and their lives.
More and more I [...]
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This is an amazing conference and it hasn’t even started yet. The pre-conference workshops are so comprehensive and across such a wide range of areas. Which one to choose?
I don’t know much about wiki’s so did that yesterday. Now I know a whole lot more. Still only really a beginner.
Edubloggercon was on as an unconference [...]
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Earlier in the year a friend flicked me an email with an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education attached. It was written by Mark Bauerlein and entitled Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind and it has provoked a great deal of thought and research on my part.
I do not necessarily agree with the writer’s conclusions; [...]
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Smell the Roses was a presentation made by Kim and I at the Network Literacy Conference. This conference featured the well known American educator and exponent of Web 2.0, Will Richardson.
Our presentation was his support act. We planned it using and a new tool called Prezi.
Prezi is an interactive tool which allows for great flexibility of presentation. Click [...]
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Back in the classroom again but this time it is a luxury … an aid to set up the Macbooks and working alongside Kim.
We have a presentation to get together before Friday… with a new class.
Having the class for the first 45 mins of the day I couldn’t resist doing a bit of research. It [...]
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Have you thought of getting the kids to help the School Tech person. Tech comes naturally to many of our students.
Let’s face it . . . for most of us it is a struggle.
At the beginning of the week Kim was lamenting being a techno moron. Deon and I were chatting when I was helping [...]
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