One of the talks I gave at the Teacher2Teacher conference was on finding useful digital content to use on your Interactive Whiteboard. There’s more to the Internet than YouTube and Google Image search! Although this presentation was delivered mainly to Smartboard users, and the original presentation produced in Smart Notebook format, the information is very [...]
Thanks in part to an Open Letter to Prezi by UK teacher Mark Clarkson, the fantastic online presentation tool, Prezi, has announced a free educational license for teachers and students. Students and teachers can now create private prezis for free. Upon verification of student/teacher identity, Prezi EDUEnjoy is free and Prezi EDUPro comes with a [...]
This video was shown at last night’s TEDxOrenda event at BETT last night. I thought it was pretty inspirational. Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their [...]
Thanks to Sidney Eve on Twitter for posting this link to an interesting presentation about Digital Natives. As well as making some interesting points about digital natives, it also shows how presentations can benefit from losing all the bullet points and combining small amounts of text with punchy images. Digital Natives
Just wanted to share a great little presentation that was mentioned on Twitter the other day. I didn’t write this, but I do think it’s great! I may not be totally here yet, but a lot of my newer presentations are trying to have fewer words and many more pictures. Try and do the same [...]
09.15Did You Know 4.0?
The new version of the Shift Happens / Did You Know video has been released on YouTube. This one focusses on the changing media landscape. Some interesting information here. Thanks to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod for this latest version. I think the shift to pocket devices is the most interesting. I use my Nokia [...]
Stupeflix is a new site that lets you turn images into video slideshows in the same way that Animoto does. It’s currently in Beta and while you can create videos for free it looks like there may be a charge in future. You can add images by copying and pasting the image URLs froma site [...]
05.04Wall Wisher
Wall Wisher is an online notice board maker. It gives you a virtual space where you can post short text notes in the same way that you could put post-it notes onto a notice board in your classroom. But this noticeboard can be shared between people all over the world. As well as text notes [...]
Promethean have now made available a report by education researchers Robert Marzano and Mark Haystead entitled “Evaluation Study of the Effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on Student Achievement,” The study examined whether Promethean’s ActivClassroom had an impact at different grade levels and across different academic content areas in schools around the US. The research found that [...]
03.31Using a Visualiser
I ran a training day last week for a college where we looked at Visualisers (sometimes called Document Cameras). Through the day we tried out some different things that you could do and I took some screen grabs. I have put the screengrabs, and a few photographs from the day into a short presentation. Hopefully [...]