Serge's ICT page

JIM JARMUSCH - Coffee And Cigarettes

2010-07-03T21:23:00.000+09:30

Tom Waits Waltzing Matilda live 1977

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PIXELS+by+PATRICK+JEAN.

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Storybird

2009-09-10T12:33:00.005+09:30

Storybird Quick Tour from Storybird on Vimeo.

New collaborative story creation and publishing platform.

Free and still in beta, but it will soon offer printing service too.

Looks cool, and I guess it could be used with young story tellers as quite a power tool.
Probably good platform for teachers to create their own resources.

You need to sign up for free account and off you go.

Look at some examples here:

Books

What do you think?

See the review of the site on www.readwriteweb.com

Social Media Classroom

2008-10-18T07:14:00.002+09:30

Howard Rheingold's model platform for

Participatory Pedagogy

The greatest value that the SMC can add to a learning community is its ability to support a movement away from education as delivery of knowledge toward education as critical, collaborative inquiry—a student-centric pedagogy that engages students in actively constructing knowledge together, rather than passively absorbing it from texts, lectures, and discussions

Cool Red Hat Ad

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Stanford School of Engineering

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Stanford School of Engineering

"For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.

This fall, SEE launches its programming by offering one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

Stanford Engineering Everywhere offers:

Anytime and anywhere access to complete lecture videos via streaming or downloaded media.
Full course materials including syllabi, handouts, homework, and exams.
Online social networking with fellow SEE students.
Support for PCs, Macs and mobile computing devices.

Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms। A Creative Commons license allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material." (from Stanford University home page)

Umpc: HiVision Shows Off Sub-$100 Linux Mini Laptop

2008-09-21T07:10:00.000+09:30

Umpc: HiVision Shows Off Sub-$100 Linux Mini Laptop

Legislation Could Ban MySpace In Schools - Mashable

2008-09-13T14:11:00.000+09:30

Legislation Could Ban MySpace In Schools - Mashable

US Hose of reps has approved DOPA - Deleting Online Predators Act. If it becomes a law it should effectively legislate exclusion of all popular social networking sites from US schools and libraries.

Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia - Technology - smh.com.au

2008-05-08T08:19:00.001+09:30

Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia - Technology - smh.com.au:

"Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia"

Skimbit - Online Group Decision Making

2008-04-25T08:52:00.005+09:30

Skimbit is a free replacement for the usual barrage of emails and messy http links when trying to get organized on line. You can organize web searches into projects, rate your findings, invite others to contribute and vote, and manage the decisions. Could be useful in educational setting for scaffolding and organization of web search and decision making across curriculum.

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

2008-04-23T14:53:00.005+09:30

If you still haven't seen his YOUTUBE videos and downloaded his software (I think that more that 500 000 people did so far), here is Johnny Lee on TED:

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/245

101+ Web Resources for Students | studenthacks.org

2008-04-11T23:59:00.001+09:30

101+ Web Resources for Students | studenthacks.org

An interesting list of resources for students. Many reference and research links.

Adobe launches free web version of Photoshop

2008-04-02T23:37:00.003+09:30

Adobe launches free web version of Photoshop
In an effort to stay relevant in an increasingly free and online software scene, Adobe has launched Photoshop Express, a free version of the popular software. Users can edit images, use free 2GB storage and display their collections in one of the album formats.

GetBodySmart: Interactive Tutorials and Quizzes On Human Anatomy and Physiology

2008-01-31T18:43:00.000+09:30

And one more Flash based free resource:
GetBodySmart: Interactive Tutorials and Quizzes On Human Anatomy and Physiology:
"An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology"

Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy

2008-01-31T05:17:00.000+09:30

Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy:

The Visible Body

Another FREE application (requires free e mail registration). Great for use with interactive white boards,
and it is completely web based - no additional software installations required.

Features:

*Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model
*Detailed models of all body systems
*Dynamic search capability
*Easy-to-use, 3D controls
*Seamless compatibility with Internet Explorer

Argosy's Visible Body is the most comprehensive
human anatomy visualization tool available today.
This entirely Web-delivered application offers an
unparalleled understanding of human anatomy.
The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700
anatomical structures, including all major organs
and systems of the human body.
Check the demonstration videos at:
http://www.visiblebody.com/Tour5

Cheap Multi-Point Interactive Whiteboard Wii Remote Hack - Nintendo-Scene

2007-12-11T17:01:00.000+09:30

Cheap Multi-Point Interactive Whiteboard Wii Remote Hack - Nintendo-Scene

How clever! I have to try this ASAP, good sign for those vaiting for cheaper IWBs.

What can the laptops do for our schools?

2007-12-08T10:58:00.000+09:30

We should all start thinking and discussing here in Australia. Rudd's plan is promising to start a large scale roll out of ICT facilities to all schools. If we consider the market trends in the last 5 years,it is quite logical to expect that the affordability of equipment and access to the services will make the planned 100% high schools coverage almost a natural thing. More an evolution than the revolution.
It is a good time to revisit the debate created earlier this year in US after the Times magazine report questioning the effectiveness of laptop programs in American schools.
I very much agree with the analysis by PBS edubloger Andy Carvin and I am sure we will see a repeat of this debate in various reincarnations as our government's initiative start taking shape.
Quoting edublogger Steve Hargadon, “If computing just mimics the current teaching methodologies, how could you expect a change?” I certainly wouldn’t. And it’s a shame that too many administrators, policymakers, technology vendors and journalists don’t understand this notion as well. Laptop programs have a place in our schools. But unless we’re prepared to change how those schools teach with those laptops, we’re just burning through money, good will and expectations.

Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare

2007-12-04T19:11:00.000+09:30

Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare

WiZiQ

2007-11-19T13:04:00.000+09:30

Emily Chang - eHub: WiZiQ: "WiZiQ A platform for anyone and everyone who wants to teach or learn live, online. With a virtual classroom, educational content and a session scheduler, WiZiQ works best for anyone's online teaching and learning needs. It's free to boot as well. "
take a tour and join free:
http://www.wiziq.com/

Downloading videos from You Tube

2007-11-15T23:36:00.000+09:30

Many teachers are frustrated because at schools they can't access some great resources available on various video sharing site.(Students are less frustrated since they discovered the endless stream of proxy avoiding sites.)

To be able to play You Tube videos at school you will probably have to download them on your computer at home by using one of the online ripping services like Vixy. This site will download the video for you and let you convert it into another video format like avi that can be played on standard media players. You can also go to the site like keepvid paste the http address of your video and download it as a FLV file onto you computer. To play FLV files you will probably need to download a FLV player. One of the more reliable and simple players is MOYEA that can be downloaded here,

Traveler IQ Challenge

2007-11-13T22:34:00.000+09:30

Traveler IQ Challenge
The Traveler IQ Challenge
Nice Geography interactive quiz games

Traveler IQ Challenge

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Traveler IQ Challenge

This Traveler IQ challenge is brought to you by the Web's Original Travel Blog

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YouTube - A Vision of Students Today

2007-11-08T21:08:00.000+09:30

YouTube - A Vision of Students Today

celtx - Download Version 0.995

2007-10-30T12:32:00.000+09:30

celtx - Download Version 0.995

Great open source (free) scriptwriting software. We have tested it in class and it has proven to be a very easy tool to use. students needed 2 minutes to work it out. Can print to PDF, available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

K12 Online Conference 2007

2007-10-10T20:00:00.000+09:30

K12 Online Conference 2007

"The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations. Two podcast channels are available: You can subscribe to K12Online07 Video Podcasts and/or subscribe to K12Online07 Audio Podcasts. A feed for blog comments is also available. "

BBC NEWS | Education | Students teaching the teachers

2007-10-06T16:41:00.000+09:30

BBC NEWS | Education | Students teaching the teachers:

"A college is harnessing the power of students' technical knowledge to teach their lecturers a thing or two about information technology."
Oaklands College in Hartfordshire has invested 400,000 in ICT and, to help students and staff become comfortable with the technology, they have appointed 35 'eMentors' - technologically literate students. It sounds like a success.

Make Large Rasterized Images

2007-09-19T18:38:00.000+09:30

Free web based service. Upload your image, select the settings and download the result.
The Rasterbator: "The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size."

elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

2007-09-16T19:43:00.000+09:30

elearnspace.

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age:

by George Siemens

Great read for all interested in ICT and education.
Here is the introduction, follow the link on the top to read the rest of this article and more on elearning:

"Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments. Vaill emphasizes that “learning must be a way of being – an ongoing set of attitudes and actions by individuals and groups that they employ to try to keep abreast o the surprising, novel, messy, obtrusive, recurring events…” (1996, p.42).

Learners as little as forty years ago would complete the required schooling and enter a career that would often last a lifetime. Information development was slow. The life of knowledge was measured in decades. Today, these foundational principles have been altered. Knowledge is growing exponentially. In many fields the life of knowledge is now measured in months and years. Gonzalez (2004) describes the challenges of rapidly diminishing knowledge life:

“One of the most persuasive factors is the shrinking half-life of knowledge. The “half-life of knowledge” is the time span from when knowledge is gained to when it becomes obsolete. Half of what is known today was not known 10 years ago. The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD). To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”

iPod in Education: News

2007-09-09T13:54:00.000+09:30

iPod in Education: News:
Mogopop - iPod authoring tool
Go to http://www.mogopop.com/portal to see a great iPod authoring tool that leverages the Notes facility on an iPod. The Web 2.0 application creates a downloadable installer for you to get the material you have created onto an iPod. See the screen gab below:Publish Post
Many educational resources available for free download. It seams to be an easy way to create your own resources for students' use on their iPods.

Free video tutorials from video-tutes.com

2007-08-25T08:30:00.000+09:30

Free video tutorials from video-tutes.com
Tutorials for a range of industry standard design software ( including Dreamweaver, Photoshop , Flash, Premiere Pro). Great resource for staying up to date with constantly updated software packages.

SMART - Software resources

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SMART - Software resources

Essentials for Educators

Download curriculum-relevant templates and images for lessons created in Notebook software (part of SMART Board software).

Educational software

Download educational software and movies to use on your SMART Board interactive whiteboards.

Lesson Activity Toolkit

Try the pilot version of SMART’s Lesson Activity Toolkit – the newest addition to our Notebook software

Google Sky Launches - 200 Million Galaxies on Your Desktop

2007-08-22T19:54:00.000+09:30

Google Sky Launches - 200 Million Galaxies on Your Desktop

Post from Mashable(Social networking news), 22 August:

"No, it’s not April 1st: Google really has launched a service called Sky that lets you explore the heavens from within Google Earth. You get a 3D view of all the constellations viewable from earth, and you can explore them in 3D. 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies are included.

Amazingly, the imagery is stitched together from more than 1 million images, with contributions from the Hubble Space Telescope. That shouldn’t be surprising, since Google and NASA have already worked together on images that show the earth from space."

Software Sites

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Software Sites

RSS Feed from EDNA with software - mainly free- of interest to educators and students.

Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices

2007-08-22T13:37:00.001+09:30

Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices: "Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. "(ABC Web site)

Education - australian screen

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Education - australian screen: " Developed by Curriculum Corporation through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers’ notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators’ notes also provide useful background material."

Save videos from YOU TUBE to play at school.

2007-08-14T20:08:00.000+09:30

http://vconvert.net/

RSA Lectures - Howard Gardner - Future Minds | Teachers TV

2007-08-13T12:02:00.000+09:30

RSA Lectures - Howard Gardner - Future Minds Teachers TV: "Video Information Length:60 minutes Synopsis In this lecture series, filmed at the RSA in London, Harvard professor Howard Gardener examines the mental capacities needed for the future in a globalised world. The kinds of minds he suggests should be cultivated are three cognitive ones: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind and the creating mind, and two that deal with the human sphere: the respectful mind and the ethical mind. Gardener discusses how these can be best nurtured, and points out some of the inevitable tensions created between them. After the lecture a group of teachers discuss how these ideas are used in practice in the classroom today."

iEARN: Additional Resources

2007-08-09T12:07:00.000+09:30

iEARN: Additional Resources

Project based learning resources collected for iEarn participants.

SMARTBoard Lessons Podcast

2007-08-09T06:40:00.000+09:30

SMARTBoard Lessons Podcast

About

The purpose of this site is to accompany a free podcast that focuses on using SMART Boards in the classroom. Each episode will feature a lesson, a podcast, and user comments. The hosts, Joan Badger and Ben Hazzard, have been recognized as Canadian & International Innovative Teachers by Microsoft, SMART Exemplary Educators, Peer Educators, Tradeshow Teachers, and Conference Presenters on the use of SMARTBoards in the classroom. Joan teaches Grade 6 and provides professional development for teachers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Ben has taught from Grades 4 through 7 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and then Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

The goal of this podcast to share lesson ideas that use technology to engage students in learning with a focus on SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboards between educators. Teachers can listen on lunch breaks or recesses as they mark papers or on their way to school in the morning via their iPod. We are always looking for other educators who would like to share their lesson ideas with others. Email Ben (ben @ mrhazzard.com) or Joan (jbadger @ pembinatrails.ca) with your ideas!

Primary School Learning Technologies

2007-08-05T13:59:00.000+09:30

Primary School Learning Technologies

List of IWB resources and links. Mainly primary.

Internet Public Library:

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Internet Public Library:
The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated its content and managed the Ask a Question reference service. As of January 1, 2007, the IPL has moved to Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. Now, a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science are maintaining the IPL!

Flvix.com - Free online video converter. Convert videos from Youtube, Google Video to the formats AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3

2007-07-31T20:06:00.000+09:30

Flvix.com - Free online video converter.
Convert videos from Youtube, Google Video to the formats AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3

How to use

1. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the textbox bellow.
2. Choose desired format : AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3.
3. Click Convert button.
4. Download the converted file.

del.icio.us search for "mind mapping"

2007-07-30T12:59:00.000+09:30

del.icio.us search for "mind mapping"

Notely : Student Organisation Made Easy

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Notely : Student Organisation Made Easy

43 Things » SlideShare

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43 Things » SlideShare

2007-07-18T19:16:00.000+09:30

What Do Teachers Really Make? Taylor Mali... - Cellfish.com

2007-07-18T19:15:00.000+09:30

What Do Teachers Really Make? Taylor Mali... - Cellfish.com

ETTC @ NSC Interactive Whiteboard Links

2007-07-16T21:53:00.000+09:30

ETTC @ NSC Interactive Whiteboard Links

A huge collection of IWB friendly resources for all learning areas.

Blog This: » A math lab in your cell phone | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

2007-07-16T12:24:00.000+09:30

A math lab in your cell phone by ZDNet's Roland Piquepaille -- As most of us are using cell phones today, Israeli scientists have decided to put a math lab in your pocket. They developed a library of math modules which can be installed on almost cell phones available today. So you'll be able to see graphs or solve equations on your phone while on a train or a bus ride. You'll also be able to send graphs or formulas by SMS to other students -- and to send the results of your exercises to your teacher. Did I mention you can download these applications for free?

teaching.jpg (JPEG Image, 750x600 pixels)

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Science Videos Search Engine

2007-07-04T21:22:00.000+09:30

Science Videos Search Engine: "ScienceHack: search engine for science videos

"every science video on ScienceHack is screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality"

TeacherTube - When I Grow Up...

2007-07-04T19:29:00.000+09:30

TeacherTube - When I Grow Up...: "What will the world be like for our students? Are we preparing them?"

Dummies::Using Skype at School

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Dummies::Using Skype at School

"Schools have outgrown inkwells, slates, and typewriters. E-mail, instant messaging, and the Internet have opened the classroom to the world. Skype empowers students and teachers even further by adding features for collaboration, live video, and instant file sharing."

Skype Journal: Skype for Schools

2007-07-04T09:31:00.000+09:30

Skype Journal: Skype for Schools

World Class Schools, a collection of forty high schools and organizations all across the world, is introducing several innovative projects for 2005. One of the their most ambitious and innovative project is the Skype Foreign Language Lab Project. This project uses technology from the Skype Company and applies it to the classroom. Cunningham explains that Skype technology allows person setting at one computer to call a person at another computer and then talk to that person for free. He adds that this allows for projects like their Skype Foreign Language Project to turn a classroom of computers into a language lab by allowing students in a language class the opportunity to call and talk with native speakers on a daily basis for free. i-Newswire.com

Mindomo tutorial: learn by doing

2007-07-02T13:38:00.000+09:30

Online Mind Mapping Tool
Mindomo Free Web-based Online Mind Mapping">
Mindomo tutorial: learn by doing
A versatile web-based mind mapping tool with the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a web browser. Needs free registration and has a good tutorial.

Scitalks: Smart people on cool topics

2007-07-02T13:17:00.000+09:30

Science video aggregator- lectures and videos
Scitalks: Smart people on cool topics

Mrs.V.'s Lessons

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Mrs.V.'s Lessons

Online Activities Promoting Information Literacy

The following activities focus learners on the process skills recommended

by the American Association of School Librarians, the International Society of Technology Educators, and
the American Association of College and Research Libraries

EPN The Education Podcast Network

2007-06-24T20:13:00.000+09:30

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Techlearning > > Banning Student "Containers" > June 15, 2007

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Techlearning > > Banning Student "Containers" > June 15, 2007

Techlearning > > The Web 2.0 Visual Glossary > June 15, 2007

2007-06-24T15:19:00.000+09:30

Techlearning > > The Web 2.0 Visual Glossary > June 15, 2007

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory

2007-06-22T09:41:00.000+09:30

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory

The best learning theory digest around:

• Talk to the brain first, mind second.
Even if a learner is personally motivated to learn a topic, if the learning content itself isn't motivating, the learner's brain will do everything possible to look for something more interesting. This applies to both getting and keeping attention, as well as memory. Remember, you can't do anything until you get past the brain's crap filter! And to the brain, a dry, dull, academic explanation is definitely CRAP (regardless of how much your mind cares about the topic).

Google Librarian Central - Tools

2007-06-21T21:28:00.000+09:30

Google Librarian Central - Tools

Schools to install digital whiteboards - Technology - theage.com.au

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Schools to install digital whiteboards - Technology - theage.com.au

On-Line Technology Tutorials From Around the World Wide Web

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On-Line Technology Tutorials From Around the World Wide Web

SMART Board as a video podcast studio

2007-06-14T22:13:00.000+09:30

Just found this on Google Edu blog Infinite Thinking Machine

"Creating a video podcast for math class can help your students correct misconceptions, learn the language of math, and clarify thinking about mathematical concepts. ... Although these students created each episodes using the “record” feature of a Smartboard, you can also use a variety of Screen Capture software such as the free version of Camstudio. "

It's good option for some maths classes and not a bad way to save your regular SMART Board work for revision.

Here is the TEC presentation that has had a lot of hits lately. Some of our teachers were slightly offended when we watched it on our last PD meeting. Conclusions are very much based on North American data, but it certainly has some weight for us Down Under too. What do you think? Does it reflect our reality in Central Australia?
This link is embedded from TeacherTube. Let's hope it can get through our Firewalls.