Archive for January 2008
I need a Blog Go-To guy (or gal)
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 24, 2008
- In: Blog | CESI | technology
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I try to engage with new technology, but I know I’m no computer whizz-kid. For instance I would like assistance in some of the following. I may well figure these out myself over time, but it would be a lot more painless if there was a go-to person. Knock off the ‘Moderate Comments’ option. I [...]
Ideas and Thoughts
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 24, 2008
- In: Blog | Ewan McIntosh | Ideas and Thoughts | PO
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Came across this blog indirectly through Ewan McIntoshes edu.blog.com (see blogroll). Some interesting recent posts include Lesson #1 – Share; I get really frustrated when someone tells me about an outstanding teacher and I can’t find hide nor hair of their work online. What a waste. If they are as good as others say they [...]
The Visible Body
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 23, 2008
Don’t teach an awful lot of biology but if I did I think I would be excited by The Visible Body. Pretty dang awesome - and totally free! From Jane’s E-learning Pick of the Day
Scifest 2008
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 23, 2008
The Young Scientist competition is a wonderful idea and makes you wonder why our students can be so enthusiastic about this and yet so uninterested in studying Science in school. Could it perhaps be anything to do with us as teachers, what we teach or maybe how we teach it. I have had some mixed [...]
Why so few blogs from teachers?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 17, 2008
- In: Blog | Education
- 8 Comments
I have been searching for Irish educational blogs lately and there seem to be very few about. Matt Reville is a Primary School resource teacher and has an interesting blog here, while www.anseo.net is a wonderful diary of primary school teachers and their experiences. http://www.pedablogy.com/ is a blog from Seoghan Moriarty about, as he says himself, [...]
Taylor Mali: What Teachers Make
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 16, 2008
- In: Education | taylor mali | youtube
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From youtube - one of the very best, and a suitable reposte to the recent benchmarking report perhaps? Hmmm . . . Maybe not. For PO: Two for Mr Deacon: The Impotence of Proofreading Totally Like Whatever
youtube again
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 16, 2008
- In: Blogroll | Education | youtube
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It’s not just me Some reasons to unblock Youtube: Free. Purchasing school videos is an expensive business. Channel 4learning is one of the better resources. Short. Lord knows students don’t have a great attention span, and Youtube’s policy of keeping videos to ten minutess or less works well. Being short means you are straight in [...]
Ken Robinson on Ted.com
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 13, 2008
- In: creativity | Education | ken robinson | ted.com | timefiller
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This talk is beginning to develop cult status, and rightly so. I can’t embed from ted.com, so this is from youtube (not sure how they managed to post up a 20 minute video). Do schools kill creativity? “A must-see for every parent and teacher. Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) [...]
Henry Reed: Naming of Parts
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 9, 2008
One of my favourite poems is Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed. It encapsulates so much of what is wrong with our education. It is about an army instruction lesson on the parts of an army rifle, where the poet is half listening to the instructor, and half looking outside the window at the beautiful [...]
Youtube – is it just me?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 2, 2008
- In: Education | Physics | Quantum Theory | Science | youtube
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I have had access to youtube in my classroom since last September and it is by a country-mile the geatest ICT resource I have in my arsenal. You could take away the Interactive Whiteboard, the dataloggers and the DVD player, but I would cry if I lost youtube. The irony is that I bought a [...]
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