Design a Gingerbread man with colourful sweets. Great fun. A lovely activity if you are looking at the story of the Gingerbread Man in KS1. Avoid if you are dieting!
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A remarkable Android/iOS app where you can record short videos and transform into pieces of art using filters powered by artificial intelligence. Choose from a range of filters.
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What are the mindful habits of successful learners and how can an understanding of these habits help us better achieve our learning goals? This is the question Art Costa Bena Kallick set out to answer with their study of the Habits of Mind. In 'Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind' Costa and Kallick identify sixteen habits which when utilised promote deeper understanding, unlock creativity, encourage reflective thinking and scaffold problem solving for individuals and groups.
Sydney has become a beacon that brings people together and sparks conversations. Most recently the conversation centred on the topic of girls in tech and what might be done to re-dress the gender balance in STEAM subjects and related career pathways. Sponsored by INTEL this Vivid Ideas event drew a mix of entrepreneurs, educators and tech luminaries to the Museum of Contemporary Art on a Saturday afternoon to share their ideas on what might be done.
I'm a so-so fan of Skype. I've used it on an infrequent basis and have had more than a few dropped calls. Audio and video alike.
However, it's a cheap way to make long distance calls and seems to work better over wi-fi and the video quality is improving on a regular basis.
So therefore it's probably a great tool for the classroom. But how can you use Skype to do more than just make calls? Well, there's a pantload of interesting ways! Check out these fun ideas:
Collaborate!
Meet with other classrooms:
One of the most common projects educators utilize Skype for is setting up exchanges with classrooms around the world, usually for cultural exchange purposes or working together on a common assignment. The program's official site provides some great opportunities to meet up with like-minded teachers and students sharing the same goals.
Practice a foreign language:
Connect with individual learners or classrooms hailing from a different native tongue can use a Skype collaboration to sharpen grammar and pronunciation skills through conversation.
Peace One Day:
Far beyond classroom collaborations, the Peace One Day initiative teamed up with Skype itself and educators across the globe to teach kids about the importance of ending violence, war, and other social ills.
Around the World with 80 Schools:
This challenge asks participating schools to hook up with 80 worldwide and report back what all they've learned about other cultures and languages.
Talk about the weather:
One popular Skype project sees participants from different regions make note of the weather patterns for a specified period of time, with students comparing and contrasting the results.
Collaborative poetry:
In this assignment, connected classrooms pen poetic pieces together and share them via video conferencing.
Practice interviews:
The education system frequently receives criticism for its failure to prepare students for the real world, but using Skype to help them run through mock-up
An increasingly significant aspect of literacy is an awareness of the visual elements that fall beyond the traditional components of written text. Termed 'Visual Literacy' this is the ability to read and create communications that use visual elements. It combines the skills of traditional literacy with knowledge of design, art, graphic arts, media and human perception. It takes literacy further beyond a decoding of text to a decoding of the complete package around the communication.
The Free Rice web vocabulary phenomenon that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world has now turned its attention to an exciting range of new games encompassing art, maths, language and chemistry.
Find list of Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs (in alphabetical order) that Upside Learning team follows.
1. Adventures in Corporate Education
2. Bersin & Associates : Blogs
3. Big Dog, Little Dog
4. Blogger in Middle-earth
5. Bozarthzone
6. Clark Aldrich On Simulations and Serious Games
7. Clive on Learning
8. Connectivism
9. Daretoshare
10. Dave's Whiteboard
11. Donald Clark Plan B
12. eLearning Blog // Don't Waste Your Time…
13. e-Clippings (Learning As Art)
14. E-Learning Curve Blog
15. eLearning in the Corporate Sector
16. eLearning Technology
17. eLearning Weekly
18. elearningpost
19. elearnspace
20. Engaged Learning
21. Experiencing E-Learning
22. Harold Jarche
23. ID and Other Reflections
24. In the Middle of the Curve
25. Informal Learning Blog
26. Internet Time Blog
27. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day
28. Kapp Notes
29. Learn and Lead
30. Learning Conversations
31. Learning TRENDS
32. Learning Visions
33. Learnlets
34. Making Change - Ideas for Lively eLearning
35. Mobile Learning
36. Nigel Paine
37. Stephen's Web
38. T+D Blog
39. Take An E-Learning Break
40. The Bamboo Project Blog
41. The eLearning Coach
42. The Learning Circuits Blog
43. The Rapid eLearning Blog
44. The Upside Learning Solutions Blog
45. TogetherLearn
46. Will at Work Learning
47. Workplace Learning Today
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