Posts Tagged ‘resource’
More one to one
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 16, 2009
Recently I heard that another secondary school in Singapre has just adopted 1:1 computing for students. They didn’t use netbooks (which I blogged about a while ago) but got Apple systems instead. Good for them and what a way to feed the economy!
I have also heard from two sources that MOE might be setting aside [...]
Dipity search and visualisation
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 15, 2009
Dipity is a tool that could be very useful in education. I did a search on A(H1N1) and this is what I got. It’s an interactive timeline comprising of various resources from the WWW!
Dipity helps make temporal and visual sense of searches. This organises the plethora of information that typically results from a Web search [...]
Engagement and exams
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 14, 2009
Thanks to an email list, I discovered two articles that may interest my preservice teachers.
The first is an Edutopia article on “Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement“.
The other is from Teacher Magazine and is titled “When Testing Fails“. This site requires registration, but it’s free.
I highlight the first article because the course I facilitate is [...]
Mind42 for collaborative mind mapping
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 26, 2009
Just discovered another online mind mapping tool. It’s called mind42.
Many thanks to Tom Barrett for tweeting the resource and sharing his map.
Is Batman better than Superman?
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 24, 2009
Thanks to a recommendation by Martin Weller, the Ed Techie, I have discovered two more nifty tools.
OpenZine allows users to create a blogzine. OpenZine outlines its purpose below:
aMap is a very promising tool. It allows users to create ARGUMENTATIVE concept or mind maps like the one on cutting technology costs while improving education. Or the [...]
My Prezi presentation on Second Life
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 21, 2009
I have just completed my draft of a revised presentation on Second Life that I intend to use with my classes in two weeks time. I used a new presentation tool called Prezi to do this.
One thing I like about Prezi is how you can break out of the linear presentation mode that is so [...]
Comiqs
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 15, 2009
I love Comic Life that came free on my Mac with OS 10.4. It is an optional purchase with the latest Mac OS and for Windows machines. But along comes Comiqs which has many of Comic Life’s features.
Sweet tweets
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 14, 2009
Tweets are sweet!
Using Twitter, I started following the thoughts of Tom Barrett, a teacher in Nottingham, England, after a recommendation from Mr Tweet.
From his tweets, I found a shared Google presentation on “18 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom“!
Dabbleboard
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 10, 2009
Every now and then a technology comes along that gets me excited. Dabbleboard is a tool that a group of teacher trainees introduced to me as something that they would like to demonstrate in class next week. Thank you, Group 7F!
I see it being used for collaboration both online and face-to-face. I see learners using [...]
