Minimalist posters that cover a variety of scienific discoveries and systems including sub-headings for women, corrections/commonly attributed to and Arabic scientists.
As more and more students become connected in the classroom, the focus moves towards 'formats' that are accessible for all, not just those tech savvy teachers. Big challenge, exciting challenge.
Animate drawings,create music, build ages, craft ebooks. Browser-based programming designed to teach computational thinking. Use for science, maths etc. Lesson plans available.
Article which explains Reflector. A tool which helps capture the live video screen of your iPhone, iPad etc. It captures audio too. Great for creating educational tech videos.
In the first post of new regular series about advocating for the importance of the school library and library staff, Catherine Hainstock takes a look at the value of writing a library mission statement.
Registrations are open for the 2013 PLN course. It's now 7 units long, and will help you get organise, find free PD, start blogging and connect with other educators. Registrations close March 4 so spread the word!
You may have noticed by now that we love Evernote around here! Today we have two tutorials for you to supercharge Evernote. Learn how to use note linking to speed things up,and also see how to install the web clipper in Safari on the iPad. Novembe...
Storify is one of our favourite sites, as it takes a whole new approach to story telling. We use it for putting together tutorials, summarising conferences and we think it has some amazing possibilities in the classroom. November 30, 2012 at 01:23PM
With the weather improving many of your students might be heading out on excursions or city experiences. Take a look at our post on the seven reasons why Evernote is the perfect tool for your students as they are on the move (and one reason why it...
Creating interactive fiction (like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books) is a great way for students to think about story structure, pacing and character motivation. We take a look at Twine, an intutive way of making interactive stories. Decemb...
"Copyright law is complex enough-throw in an instance of international remixing by young nerdfighters, and you have a real mess. But in the hands of author John Green, it's the basis for a pretty cool video. "
"ABC Splash is a new education website for Australia, packed with 100s of videos,
audio clips and games. Totally free to watch and play at home and in school."
Catherine Hainstock has put together a draft list of iPad apps for use with the e5 model. Have a look at her post here describing the process. A chart of the apps is also available.
We connect people to knowledge. We bring people together with the intellectual content of the past and present so that new knowledge can be created. We provide the ways and means for people to find entertainment and solace and enlightenment and joy and delight in the intellectual, scientific and creative work of other people. This is what we have always been about. [7]
Purpose:
This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.