Inspiration is another great tool that works really well on an IWB. Today, whilst defining a research topic with the class, I used the program to map out the choices our class had made late last week. The main themes are in green with sub-topics in the light blue bubbles. Once the class had voted, [...]
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I flagged over at our team blog, Activboarding, that our group of IWB teachers would be meeting to review our progress at implementing our ActivBoards and it would be Time For The Hard Questions. So to put myself under the same microscope as my colleagues, I am posting my responses to these questions: 1. Why [...]
This is Part 2 of my notes/thoughts/reflections on Marc Prensky’s 296 slide presentation. (He seemed to be quite proud of that figure!) Since I posted Part 1 last night, Bill Kerr has posted his observations and elaborated more on comments he made to me over the lunch break (while I was in the food queue [...]
Well, it was my intention to try and blog this day as it went but in an ironical twist, the MC who was introducing both Gerry White and Marc Prensky, told all of the assembled crowd to turn off their mobile phones, PDA’s and laptops. I couldn’t believe it but I didn’t want my Pocket [...]
Jason at Plunkers e-Learning has had a small difference of opinion with his local community library, where his effort to promote game based learning has provoked a rather close minded response. Jason’s intentions were: Following Bill Kerr’s lead I have been promoting video games and how they can have a beneficial effect on students by [...]
At a cluster meeting for middle school teachers tonight, there was talk not just about the typical characteristics of students approaching and in early adolescence but that every generation has new permutations on these characteristics. We were given a handout of a study by Mark McCrindle titled Understanding Generation Y. From this I can see [...]
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