Cuddly astronauts M.A.T and K.M.S and two bear colleagues were decked out in custom-made space suits and blasted 19 miles above Earth on a two-hour expedition by local students with help from Cambridge University’s Space Flight science club.
Talk about hands on learning, engaged students, and more awesomeness than most could hope to shake a stick [...]
An excellent tutorial video produced by Google for their suite of products. [via Free Technologies for Teachers]
A Google produced video that gathers a number of educators who rave about the benefits of Google Docs in their schools. I’ve used Google Docs to complete group assignments during my online AQ Courses (Additional Qualifications for my Ontario Teaching Certificate) and it really does make life a breeze. Instead of waiting on individuals with [...]
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 [...]
Examples of people not thinking clearly about the consequences of their online life continue to surface in the media. A recent article in the Washington Post looks at a number of teachers who maintain websites, or have other online presences (i.e. Facebook/MySpace), and how they have no clue about the visibility of such sites, or [...]
I should probably just link this entire website to the TED website, since it has been my recent source for amazing content. In a recent talk at TED Dave Eggers explains the creation of a free tutoring centre he started in San Fransisco. It is run out of the front section of a magazine/book editing [...]
An impressive collection of original documents has been placed online by the National Archives. It boasts a fancy flash based interface that allows interaction and navigation of the documents. Searching and connecting documents is done via tags. On a brief first look it’s pretty, but I found it slow to navigate through the documents — [...]
