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School iPad Program – not as easy as I thought!
Computer Cartoon by Andertoons One term into the official launch of our iPad program, I thought it would be opportune to reflect on the successes, failures and everything in between. I have to admit,...
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The problem with underage bias in Web 2.0 tools for schools
The online world of 2012 is a very different beast to the Internet environment of the late 1990s and and early 2000s. Social networking didn’t exist beyond email and chatrooms, dancing baby animated...
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Web 2.0 for the Under 13s crowd
Computer Cartoon by Andertoons As I lamented in my last post, many of the fabulous Web tools out there are restricted to users 13 and over. This limits what Elementary/Primary schools students can...
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Can your class survive a week without Technology?
Teacher Cartoon by Andertoons Scenario 1: The wifi and router at school is dead and needs to be replaced. Your entire grade’s work is either on the now inaccessible School server or sitting online on...
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Digital Media and Learning – what’s missing in our curriculum documents
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. Credit goes to John Elfrank-Dana for posting an article on Schoolbook titled “Wanted:New Standards...
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Pain and Remedies of Sharing iPads in Schools
There is no end to the uses of the iPad in education. I’ve discussed that ad nauseum on this blog. As a learning tool, it has the potential to make a great positive change to learning. The only...
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Technology – Providing Incredible Opportunities for Students whether we want...
We hear bad stories about young people using technology, especially the internet, at a monotonous regularity. YouTube is awash with ridiculous copycat videos of boys putting themselves in danger....
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Cybersafety websites for parents, teachers and students
Last week I attended a Cybersafety presentation aimed at parents. I went along mainly to see the message that was being presented to the parents who attended from our school. I wasn’t expecting to...
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Edmodo vs Blogging (updated and reposted from a post originally published in...
I originally wrote this post in September 2012. With a new school year beginning in Australia and plans to ramp up blogging and Edmodo at our school this year, I have updated this post to use with my...
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School Shared iPad User Policies – a Necessity or Overkill?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonunbound/6811217950/ (used and adapted under CC licence) In 2011, our iPad program began with 15 trial iPads given out to willing teachers and school leaders prepared...
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Everyone has their favourite inspirational speaker. Every teacher out there has probably seen Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talks and every school leadership team has a playlist of YouTube videos of their...
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Easy guide to Creative Commons Attribution and additional resources
In the days when great edtech was a child printing out a Word document to give to the teacher or a teacher presenting a lesson to the class via a garish PowerPoint slideshow complete with lasertext...
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