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Innovation, Creativity, Active Participation & Collaboration

Another great find from my TwitterTim.es feed today …….

the AASL Top 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning!

The “Top 25″ Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

Categories include

Media Sharing
Digital Storytelling
Manage and Organize
Social Networking [...]

Multiple Intelligences & Web 2.0 tools

I’ve long been a fan of Multiple Intelligences and of course am a complete geek when it comes to web 2.0 tools in the classroom!

As I prepare myself, both mentally & physically, to come out of the classroom in August to begin a new role at ISB – Technology and Learning Coach, I’ve been reading a [...]

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 you [...]

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 accepted [...]

What Else Do You Do On A Rainy Day?

I saw this tweet from @keishawilliams about TweetStats. Curiousity got the better of me, so taking a break from Empressr and MyStudiyo (blog post to follow), I entered my twitter username.

Considering my family and I have just spent 5 days down in Nelson (blog post in progress over here) with the amazing AllanahK – it’s no [...]

Handy Tips for SMARTBoard Notebook 10

It’s summer vacation, my son is enjoying an hour on his PlayStation, and I’m enjoying the time to just browse the internet, catch up on the starred posts in my google reader, read some books (some fiction, some teacher-ish!) and generally relax. It’s been a while since I last posted …… I thought I [...]

SMARCH – SMARTBoard – SMARTer

March is SMARCH at school – Using your SMARTBoard smarter! Here’s my top share for this week.

My twitter friend Tom Barrett has this fabulous site called Ideas to Inspire. It’s jam-packed with googledoc presentations he’s become quite famous for organising. Using a tweet he calls for ideas from [...]

The Power of Skype and your PLN

My fabulous colleagues back home in New Zealand have been enjoying the Learning@Schools09 Conference held in Rotorua. When my good friend AllanahK tweeted that she was organising a “Matt-style” dance at the start of Wes Fryer‘s Keynote presentation, I couldn’t resist the urge to tweet back “Can I skype in?”

Sure enough – at 7.15am Bangkok, Thailand [...]

No Google for a Week

I’ve just finished reading Michelle Martin‘s latest post, A Week Without Google, on her Bamboo Project Blog.

My heart darn near skipped a beat at the thought of it. Could you imagine it? No gmail, gchat, gtalk, google calendar, google docs, google maps, google search, google earth, google alerts, no blogger, and alas no iGoogle – no [...]