I was sent an e-mail this morning “Wikispaces – The Best Educational Wikis of 2010” . These were the Edublogs Best Educational Wikis of 2010. The winner was Greetings from the World This Wiki had won the Edublogs award last year. It is teacher Arjana Blazic’s wiki which gives her students in Zagreb, Croatia a [...]
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This has got to be my favourite video of the year so far. The words of the narrator say it all…. here’s to the people who push us forward… who dare to imagine a different world for education and who have the imagination to see the future when there are too many who are stuck [...]
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I was recently sent the results of a survey done by my employers, Southend-On-Sea Borough Council, which involved over 3,300 children in schools in our borough. The survey was called “Your Say” . It was a particularly interesting survey because it brought out results about the children’s attitudes to a number of issues, for instance, [...]
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As I set out on the journey of writing this post I have no fear. You may say that this is because I have written over 200 posts now and am very experienced at tapping the keys, inserting the videos and pictures and of course making sure that I cherry pick the Zemanta-provided references at [...]
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I have no clever words after seeing this video. On Holocaust Memorial Day I hope that children get the chance to reflect on the words and images of this video. The thing that will stay with me is the part where we look at the 1 point 5 million children who perished and think what [...]
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Every now and again there comes a video that changes your perspective or makes you say “yeah, that’s right I wish the politicians and the administrators would see this!” It is a video by a Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University called Mike Wesch. He first came to public and YouTube attention with a [...]
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I got an e-mail a few days ago from a friend. It contained one of those typical requests to change the world by sending on my e-mail in the following way: I am sending this note to a lot of people. If all of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 [...]
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As readers of this blog (a few hardy souls out there in internet land) will no doubt know, I am a great fan of TED Talks. I am a follower of TED on Facebook and this gives me the advantage of getting their publicity for many of the talks that they have uploaded onto their [...]
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I watched this TED Talk a few days ago… TED sells it as: At TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them. Ali started her talk with data that showed just how many boys are underperforming as against girls. She [...]
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What I like about the internet revolution is the accessibility that students have to some wonderful source material. As a follower of Scribd on Facebook I learnt about a recent addition to their extensive materials. The Kennedy family had allowed John F. Kennedy’s Harvard application of 1935 to be uploaded for free public perusal. I [...]
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