More on designing classrooms
I recently blogged about designing classrooms with particular reference to Auditory and Visual considerations. http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2008/08/08/designing-classroom/ This article in the New...
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Visual Design
One of the main mediums we use for conveying information is the visual medium. Many of use are visual learners or multi-modal learners where one of our modes are visual. Many of use produce documents,...
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New Starter Sheet – Google Advanced Search
This is the latest of the starter sheets – this one focuses on using the Google Advanced search to refine a search. The focus is humanities/social studies in the “In the Classroom” exemplar. Click here...
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Starter Sheet – Animoto
Animoto is a video creation technology that takes stills images, text and music and creates short length (30 seconds – free) of full length ( > 30 Seconds at a subscription) It is simple straight...
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Starter Sheet – Mixbook
This is another starter sheet resource available on the Edorigami wiki. Tool or technology: Mixbook – an online publishing tool that allows the user to create, edit, share and publish their work in a...
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Starter Sheet – Mindmeister
This is the latest installment in the starter sheets. This sheet looks at the use of a collaborative mind mapping tool in Mathematics. Mindmeister is free in its basic addition and allows the users to...
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Visual Search Tool – Search Cube
www.search-cube.com http://www.search-cube.com This is a visual and kinaesthetic search engine. The search results appear in the form of screen shots of the pages in a manipulatable cube. You use your...
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Last week…
… was a little quiet on the blogging front as I prepared for 2 fairly significant events. The first event was the opening of the new block at school by John Key. My part in this was running a video...
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Voicethread
The more I use Voicethread the more I like it. I like the simple GUI, the fact that I can produce media that contains, images, documents, video, voice and text. This is a rich tool for teaching and...
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Learning styles and learning tools
Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district. The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on...
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