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It was when my 3 year old earned her first ‘critter’ for her animal collection – Marshmallow Mouse for the learning about the letter ‘M’ – and begged for more time on the computer that I began to see why this tool has been so successful. Reading Eggs is a (subscription-only, although there is a […]
Read More Review of Reading Eggs: beware the addiction!You know that Twitter has entered your daily subconscious when: 1. It’s the first place you think to go to in moments of excitement…an earthquake (like #eqnz) , a thunderstorm…a new/scarey/exciting experience is a shared one. 2. Talking to strangers seems perfectly normal. There are some great ideas, thoughts, tips and advice out there. Who […]
Read More Twitter: 3 ways to tell if it’s part of youYou on Twitter? Then you’ve been there…that moment when you realise that the person you’re following just doesn’t love you back. I’m not talking about “I follow you, so you follow me” (which is just not how it works) but those people (and they’re usually super famous, in marketing, or celeb-types) that hardly follow anybody…but […]
Read More Unrequited love on Twitter: are they really worth it?This morning, I was part of a Skype session between grandparents in the UK and two children under six in New Zealand. This was not the first time we had undertaken this type of conversation – but each time it often takes more organising than a school play. We want everyone to be able to […]
Read More Tips for Skyping with the kids: they’re not performing monkeysHad the pleasure of hearing Ewan McIntosh address the Wellington Edu-crowd this morning, courtesy of Core Education. And I have tried to capture the key points that he made here – trialling Omnigraffle for myself at the same time (visualisation being, after all, a growing focus for digital literacy;-)). In essence, the social web should […]
Read More Ewan McIntosh: On being an entrepreneurial learnerPreparing your students – or your own children – for the future? There are plenty of people, and websites, out there who’ll tell you how to do it. For my part, I attended the Learning Media 2020 Visions of the Future Symposium today, and listened to keynotes from Hon Anne Tolley, Dr Monica Martinez (New […]
Read More The future of education in four easy steps…We were big adopters of Google Wave at work, even in its BETA version. We thrilled at the excitement of synchronised editing from different places in the country. We were intrigued by the action replay of what we had composed. We found it a great way to live blog from conferences, creating back channels that […]
Read More Wave goodbye…This is a compelling video from Dan Brown, a self-declared drop-out who forcefully drives his argument that education must reflect the way the world is today. While we have seen many riffs on this topic, and you could blow holes in many of his arguments (and there are some great video responses that do just […]
Read More An open letter to educators…Steve Braunias, a keynote speaker, gently mocked the inoffensive little pun in the title of the NZ English teachers’ conference last week – but we WERE ‘enthusENG’, and for many of us, the focus was elearning. Workshops ranged from using Digistore for planning to exploiting creative affordances for presentational tools to support the teaching of […]
Read More Hands up for invisible techThe short film that precedes Toy Story 3 – Day and Night – is a fabulous example of how filmmakers can make the most of the opportunities that are inherent in 3D. While it’s a bit hard to appreciate this in 2D on your computer, this clip, and the making of Day and Night, show […]
Read More What would Pixar do with elearning?
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