This is my avatar after it’s been altered by Be Funky. Who knows why these repeats appear? Somehow they are connected to the title. It provides possibilities for students creating graphic novels and comics. Elearningnews suggests that Comic Life would be good to use in conjunction with it but I haven’t tried it. I see [...]
Entries from July 30, 2008
TISA profile
July 30, 2008 · No Comments · Azerbaijan, Baku, school
After all this time here’s some current data on The International School of Azerbaijan where I teach. The school is organised into three sections: The Baku Toddler Club (Age 2) – 35 children The Primary School (ages 3-10) – 350 students Secondary School (ages 11-18) – 200 students Over 48 nationalities are represented in the [...]
Diigo
July 27, 2008 · 2 Comments · Azerbaijan
I’ve only just worked out what Diigo is. Just last week I went in search of online highlighting tools and had decided on Awesome Highlighter, however it looks like Diigo is even better as it manages a myriad of functions. In fact, I’m posting this from within the Diigo home page, which makes annotating web [...]
An alphabet for geeks.
July 23, 2008 · 1 Comment · Education
This will test students IT knowledge. I think I have another poster. (from this site)
Tags: geeks
Here be dragons and critical thinking
July 23, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“Here be dragons and critical thinking.” This has to go on my classroom wall this year. Here Be Dragons, is a 40-minute video introduction to critical thinking by Brian Dunning. “Here be dragons” was used by cartographers for those sections of the map where explorers had not yet been. I guess it was a reasonable [...]
