EdTechRoundup

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We love playing great games. But we're busy. And like everyone else, we seem to live in our web browsers. That's where we keep up with friends, get music, read, shop, watch a video. Whenever we have a free minute. We want to find our games there too. Why can't we play cool 3D games in our web browsers, as easily as we check our email? Honestly, because it's not been easy to do.

voice thread demo by lisibo

free software. there is usually a free open source version of any software you use

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Further to my initial thoughts of linking up the use of Diigo annotations with Google Notebook use I have developed a visual workflow of how a student might interact in this way.

excellent web platform for twitter

Is this comment suitable for a school's blogsite? Some might argue that since it's a child's own language it should be respected as such and approved.

The Kidnapped Trail Map Follow the Kidnapped trail by clicking on each lettered 'pin' in turn. You can zoom in by pressing the + icon in the corner of the map, and you can move around the map just by dragging it with your mouse.

WordPress.tv is Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress

A previous blogpost talked of the Nintendogs project that we initiated in two P.2 classes up in Aberdeenshire. I managed to arrange a visit there in order to capture (video, audio and image) all the practice that we could for case study presentation. Unsure of what we were going to find, we made our way up to that beautiful part of Scotland full of hope and anticipation that the practice that we would see would be something special.

is a point and click adventure game that includes over 120 brain teasers for the player to solve. The game was developed by Level-5 for the Nintendo DS, and is the first installment of the Professor Layton series. The game was released in Japan, and was later released in North America, Australia, South Korea and Europe.

This is one of our class blogs where ads have been appearing recently. The class teacher contacted me for advice and I suggested that the school could sign up to be an edublogs supporter and then there would be no more ads appearing on their site. I also pointed out that if any other teachers were keen to set up a class blog, then their blogs could be included in the school's 'ad free' package. The school is happy to do that and the problem will be resolved soon.

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.