Category: Resources
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Idea Sex – yeah the title got my attention too
Leave it to The Escapist for titles like this now eh? First from the article: No.2 … Keep the classroom, but change it and everything around it. Make the money in education slosh a different way. Have schools, colleges, communities, businesses and all other parts of the education system talk to each other a little…
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Sprout
I just got my invite to take a look at Sprout, an interesting little widget builder that can take a number of resources and make them “flashed” – essentially you could use this to replace PowerPoint or Keynote if you want to deliver webcentric presentations. If you combine this with Yahoo Pipes or custom feeds…
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Why not Vodcast
Wes has a post today that talks about storytelling and dual coding, this got me thinking about a meeting yesterday that I was in where part of the discussion was about vodcasts and what use they may be. I suggested that a vodcast that had the instructor “dancing around the room” was likely of little…
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Another look at reading
It seems that reading is the theme of the day. SLJ looks at this NEA document on the decline of reading.
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Podcast/Podpost resources – huh?
Thanks to a colleague on campus here for passing these two resources along. The first is Poducateme, a resource for using podcasts in the classroom, with American legal considerations, but there is also a Legal Guide for Canada via the Canadian Creative Commons people. At the meeting yesterday, a rather interesting point came up about…