I feel like a proud parent and I don’t even know these kids from New York! I first came across them a few months back and wrote about them in my post “The Importance of The Arts In Education” Yesterday, they performed in front of a live audience of millions singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” [...]
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I have just been reading a blog post about Computer Labs (or suites as we call them here in the U.K.). (“Close The Computer Lab“). It made a very good argument for abolishing them as they were no longer appropriate for the modern classroom. The author made a plea for computers to be set in [...]
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The AR.Drone is a really exciting development. I managed to see it working at a planning session for I.T. Curriculum review that I attended a few weeks ago. It is worked through the iPhone Touch, iPad or iPod. It flew across the room we were in and the control was fascinating in itself. The potential [...]
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The Hard Rock Memorabilia website has been designed using the capability of “Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom”. This impressive site, designed by Vertigo, showcases tons of music memorabilia of historic value such as Item 089640 which was Elvis Presley‘s stage outfit (or one of them at least) from 1972. The Deep Zoom facility allows you [...]
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I have written a few times about some significant blog posts that I have read. (see my posts on Rachel Boyd and Sarah Edson for example). I have just read an excellent new post that I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention. It is from a blogger called Shelley Wright and to use her own [...]
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I uploaded this wonderful animation to YouTube. I found it on an excellent site from Swansea called Learn ICT . This site is a veritable treasure chest of ideas, videos, animations and links to some excellent sites and apps for schools. I found the “Our Green Planet” animation as the first entry in their excellent [...]
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I am working at the moment preparing some training about the use of ICT in schools. In my research I found a brilliant site “Learn ICT” I found this site a mine of information that I could use in the preparation of my training. In amongst the gems I found some videos in the section [...]
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I read an excellent post this morning called “The Secret to Learning is Unlearning” by Helen Blowers. There was so much to admire in this post. My favourite quote is: “When I was a child the three R’s stood for reading, writing, and arithmetic. But today in many educational systems, the tenets of the new [...]
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I have just been looking at the video from PBS “New Learners of the 21st Century” http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century. There were a number of important points made in the video and much that was to be admired in the contributions [...]
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The Cardboard Institute of Technology are working at the Exploratorium in San Francisco during this month (February). They are using cardboard as a means for children and adults to explore scientific, technological and artistic ideas. They have been busy making a whole imaginary city landscape from cardboard as can be seen from the picture below [...]
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