The power of TED-Ed!

An amazing array of freely available, quality educational videos, just waiting to be used by educators in our schools, is nothing short of awesome! A new set of videos, launched in March this  year, is TED-Ed.  And, as expected, a viewing of this short video: Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing, says it much better than words [...]

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Introducing The Brydge on Kickstarter

Up until about three weeks ago, I’d never heard of Kickstarter.com  but, as often happens when you hear of something new, you suddenly start hearing about it from a range of sources! Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects.  If you have an idea, develop it, but don’t have the money to manufacture and [...]

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Maths app leads the way!

Hot on the heels of Apple’s iBooks2 launch last week was a report by textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, of a pilot study of an iPad based algebra textbook app known as HMH Fuse: Algebra 1**.  The aim of the study, which involved 1000 students in the Riverside Unified School District in California, was to measure [...]

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The new wave in education – Interactive textbooks!

The new age of textbooks has been in development for a while now.  Just a couple of days ago I read a Mashable article: Interactive textbook makes reading social, bracess for Apple annoucement about the development of Bio Book. BioBook, created by Jed Macosko and Dan Johnson of Wake Forest University under a grant from [...]

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I love it ….. I love it ….. I want one of these too!!!!

A love for gadgets seems to run in my family! So when a member of my family shared this video with me, I held my breath until the end.   Then I let fly with a loud and clear: I love it!   I want it!! I’m sure our printer needs replacing!   Hmm….. ?   What’s that?  An [...]

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A Web 2.0 Toolbox: Start your learning journey today!

You’ve heard it all before …..  It’s a new world. Our students, who are digital natives, learn differently to the way we learned.   To ensure we retain our relevancy in the eyes of our students and to ensure that we ‘engage’ the students in our classes, we need to embrace this new world with its [...]

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Social Networking to Publicise Books

My learning journey took a new and different twist this week. Together with Miffy Farquharson, I was asked by the School Library Association of Victoria to present at their conference: Creative Communication: A conference for library technicians and assistants on the topic Social Networking to Publicise Books. Initially hesitant, it didn’t take me too long [...]

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Embedding media into your blog is quick, easy and looks good too!

As they say – a picture is worth a thousand words. But embedding pictures, graphics, or media into a blog post does more than that: they add a focal point to your blog they can illustrate the point you’re trying to make in words they can extend the words of your blog post they improve [...]

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Images and all that stuff

It’s just as well that the Teacher Challenge is including something on copyright and images ’cause I admit that this is an area that baffles me!  Unfortunatley copyright issues are in the same league as insurance policies for my stubborn brain!  These kinds of issues just sit there and stare at me, taunting me to [...]

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Avatars – The birth of my alter ego!

My avtar was born on May 6th 2010.  The birth announcment proclaiming Done it! was placed in just the fourth ever blog post I had published!  It was indeed a proud moment which I remember well.   At the time, thanks were extended to annonymous members of my initial PLN, but gratitude to the makers of [...]

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