Just experimented with a new gadget that Google Docs provides. Spreadsheets complete with picture graphs.
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Open Source software is a large part of the future for schools. There is no point in eternally giving large amounts of funds to Microsoft when there are similar quality programs available, including server software, which can be used in schools.
Firefox is a great start to disentangling from Microsoft. For those who don’t know it’s [...]
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Priscilla would be proud. Grade 4s at TISA have just posted their work on the passage wall down from my room. I was impressed. … and I love this one…
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Today the school re-authorisation visit began by two men from the Primary Years Program.
We are a well-established school so there are only two of them but I understand that four is more common. They have meetings all day for three days, including the P8 team for the Exhibition (that’s Michael and me) as well [...]
The kids are working incredibly well, with great energy for all the various tasks remaining. In the last two days they’ve starting working en masse on art pieces in the corridor. We rolled out 15m of plastic sheeting and out came the glue, paints, canvasses and brushes along with overhead projectors. Some [...]
Al Upton’s Mini Legends shutdown
I visited Al’s classroom a few years back in Glenelg, South Australia, and learnt much about technology usage in the classroom. The main idea that revolutionised my teaching practice was his idea of getting cheap recycled computers and setting up 6 computers in a classroom. I didn’t even [...]
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On Google Earth I wandered into the Sky part this afternoon and went looking at Hubble’s farthest photos with one million second exposures - photons arriving at one per second for the outer galaxies. Thought the the following was good to record for my students, from Earth and Sky.
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Martin Rees also said: We’ve made [...]
The big Exhibition Unit starts next week. Many of our kids are away on a rubgy tournament in Dubai this week so it’s been postponed. It’s called In Search of a Lifestyle with students choosing a sub-topic. It has to be from a child’s point of view and include an international case study.
The [...]
I’m a month behind the game. Johnny Chung Lee has found that you can use the Nintendo Wii remote to create an interactive white board from any flat surface, as long as you have a data projector. This could revolutionize how whiteboards are used. The challenge seems to be in creating the infra [...]
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