EdTechRoundup

This is the gateway to the dc2 blogging community. Here you will find links to Dundee school blogs, the ICT Staff Tutors blog and to other relevant resources. Visit the Glow Web 2.0 group for information about using blogs, wikis, podcasts and other Web 2.0 tools in learning and teaching.

Impoverishment of the Educational Imagination Posted on | January 22, 2009 | Stand after stand at the BETT Show this year seemed to bear witness to a concept of schooling that is just about as far away from the joy of learning as it appears possible to get - it could really only get worse if we were to go back to thrashing kids. Everywhere I wandered I came across little gaggles of people listening intently to someone demonstrating yet another ticky-boxy piece of junk designed to rank and grade kids, to label them, to monitor them and to 'protect' them.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the state of syndication on UMW Blogs for the low, low price of my overdrawn prose. So lay it down and start kicking it up a notch-if you ain't syndicatin', you ain't vindicatin'!

Each student was required to find 5 articles, read them, and summarize them; uploading their summaries (or the author's own abstract) into a ZohoCreator form. ZohoCreator is a free service that allows you to create database input forms.

Blogs by and for pupilas at Egglescliffe School

Ricky School ICT Blog using blogger

The Gestetner, named for its inventor David Gestetner, is a duplicating machine.

I work at a school who are looking to use the Nintendo DS and some of the educational software with students to help boost things like basic literacy and numeracy skills. I am basically asking for help from anyone who has experience with this software or experience of using DSs in a school environment... What is the potential of this project? I would welcome any advice ranging from suitable software available to the logistics of looking after and charging a class set. ... Can feedback from a class set of DSs be sent to a teacher?

Assessment and Evaluation in the 21st-Century Classroom Facilitator: Konrad Glogowski

Unless technology lets me do something I couldn't otherwise do with a stick in the sand, I don't see much sense in it.

So you have attended a TeachMeet and hopefully have come away with something to use in the clasroom. Please take some time to explain what you think went really well and what might be tweaked to help improve future meetings.

The CPS Chalkboard gives you the freedom to teach from anywhere in the classroom. Navigate CPS, PowerPoint, or any of your computer's programs with this easy-to-use tablet and stylus. The CPS Chalkboard also lets you draw illustrations or notate questions without being bound to the blackboard.

The WiiMote Whiteboard in action!

The 'unconference' approach to professional development, TeachMeet, involves short, sharp demonstrations of one technology, showing its whole potential in no more than seven minutes. We then reverse engineer what went into the product of the students' learning, leaving plenty of time to play and discover new skills. Crucially, we leave time at the end for planning your new skills into your next period of teaching and learning.

EatMeet on TeachMeet

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