Ever since I made the move to Mac I’ve been a heavy user of Keynote. I found it more elegant than PowerPoint (2004), it produced better looking images (the text just looked crisper) and it was dead easy to use. That was until recently.
Since making the move to Keynote I had never needed to create [...]
An editorial in The Star today by Lee Rimer is a great reminder that as we infuse our schools with computers and innovation we have to be mindful that what we are doing is adding value to the equation. The article critiques the online push of the University environment, with class notes, assignments and tests [...]
A post today by Brian at ‘Learning is Messy’ has engaged some of my over-arching thoughts on technology in education. I am a strong proponent of technology in the classroom, but I carry a mighty asterisk when I say that, because what I actually support is meaningful technology in the classroom. Brian correctly uses a [...]
An interesting development out of Australia as students in Queensland may be forced to have their photos, interests, and aspirations profiled in a massive database meant to help educators keep track of their progress. The idea from Queensland’s Education Minister, Rod Welford, is to collect this data so that schools and teachers can track student [...]
I am a huge fan of Google Earth, and use it extensively for geotagging photos, as well as general exploring of the miraculous planet we call home. I have also had great success with using Google Earth in the classroom, and one of the short activities I like to do is plotting the relative distances [...]
A group of scientists claim to have new evidence that shows the Andes grew 2.5km over a 4 million year span.
Carmala Garzione of the University of Rochester in New York State, US, and colleagues say the sudden rise was caused by a huge layer of dense rock dropping off the underside of the crust that [...]
Amazon Indians from one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with images released showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows. The photographs, taken by Survival International near the border between Brazil and Peru, are rare evidence that such groups exist. [via Reuters]
Survival International is a group [...]
