Edubeacon

This morning I’ve updated the Touring Antarctica webquest to include an electronic note-making sheet for students to use for the scavenger hunt introductory phase. Each time I introduce this to Year 8 students I’m impressed with the way they dive into it. As usual, they had to be reminded that there are no ‘right’ answers [...]

I’ve seen loads of great student and class projects over the last few days. Some simple, some more complex. One of the best examples of a simple but thorough project I saw was the “Learning Kiosks using Powerpoint”. Myles Nickolich, has developed a cancer information kiosk for a hospital. Simple, well researched and so professionally [...]

Tuesday at NECC. I’m pleased to have caught presentations by both Tom March and Bernie Dodge. Tom is almost an Australian these days having lived there for a number of years. HisOzline.com site now has it’s focus “The Drive for 2005″. It’s well worth a check as an introduction to the use of weblogs in [...]