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Newsmap

If you’re a visual learner then this is the news site for you!

It’s called Newsmap and it was shared by Andrew Churches in his Project-Based Learning Session (blog post brewing) at ASB Unplugged 2010, in Mumbai, India.

I think I love it because, not only is it colour-coordinated to the type of news it is, but [...]

I was recently contacted by Shanthi Venkataraman, a student from Columbia University, Graudate School of Journalism, as my friend Silvia Tolisano (Around the World with 80 Schools skype project mastermind) had passed on my name as a teacher who had been using skype in the classroom for a number of years and had taken part [...]

Sustainability - Take Action!

(Reflection Post 2 CoETaIL Course 5)

Grade 5 is using a google doc to help each other teach our students the technology skills required in order to complete the Culminating Project for our Environments/Sustainability Unit for Science/Social Studies.

In pairs or as individuals, our students will be creating PSAs (Public Service Announcements).They will need to analyze one [...]

Fireworks Animoto Style

I’ve written about Animoto before. It’s very intuitive, quick and easy as well as free to use when you want to create a 30 second video. For just US$3 per video or US$30 per year, you can make longer videos.
Some ways to use Animoto in the classroom:

Teaser (introducing students to a new topic)
Assessment [...]

VoiceThread - Digital Library

A while back, I submitted our VoiceThread as a Digital Portfolio for consideration for the VoiceThread Digital Library. The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. It is VoiceThread’s hope to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects.

I’m honoured to say that it was been [...]

Sharing the Passion

Today is the first day of the last week of Semester. It was a particularly hard day – I’m not sure why but it was. The students were lethargic, unenthusiastic and as flat as pancakes. (And that was at 9.30am!!). The day didn’t get much better either.

I wish that I’d checked my google reader for [...]

Budding FoSS Scientists

(Cross-posted at Room 231’s Class Blog)

Our budding young scientists in Grade 5 have been learning about Variables and how to investigate them. During the investigations they have been learning things like how to use a two-coordinate graph, how to predict, how to identify variables and control them, setting standards and recording data.

To [...]