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- Seven types of ambiguity and new literacies
- Wednesday Wisdom #10: Application and ability
- HOWTO: Create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s
- #uppingyourgame: an audio preview
- Things I Learned This Week – #10
- How I put together ‘Things I Learned This Week’ [visualization]
- Escaping the circus.
- Ten big questions for education
- Wednesday Wisdom #9: Life is a warfare against malice.
- Get that cool Google-style ‘reveal’ effect on your site.
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a customised version of Wordpress for educators. It’s going to be called EduPress and is about a week away from completion. The question is, what features would you like to see in it?
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The BBC and Guardian report today that secondary schools are going to be, in effect, held to ransom by their feeder schools’ KS2 results… :o
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It’s time to take stock of the stuff from the world of education that I’ve found interesting in the past week. This week, it’s all applications! :)
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It’s Saturday, so it’s question time! This week’s question comes in two parts: What’s the best lesson you’ve ever seen? Why was it so good?
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Yesterday, Google released the Google Page Creator. As with all things Google, it’s an easy-to-use yet powerful way of accomplishing a worthwhile task. In this case, creating a web page/site. Let’s have a closer look…
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I’m a firm believer that collaboration is the key to success in most educational enterprises – both for students and for teachers. Today, therefore, we’re going to have a look at how to integrate some collaborative learning techniques into the everyday life of your classroom… :)
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Seeing as everyone seems to love my previous entry on using Google Earth in the classroom, I thought I’d add more information on how to use it effectively…. :D
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Will Richardson’s post about his school’s problems with MySpace has re-stimulated my thought about using student-owned technology as a learning tool, rather than imposing draconian measures…
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Sometimes websites don’t describe themselves very well at all. Take the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET), for example. Yes, it has information about educational technology (surprisingly!) but it also has a surfeit of information about all different kinds of really interesting and useful stuff for educators. Let’s take a closer look…
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It’s Sunday, so it’s time for this week’s roundup of things I’ve found interesting or useful in the world of education this week, including three items from the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and three from other EduBlogs… :p
