Edubeacon

They say “A picture’s worth a thousand words” and I’d have to agree having recently purchased the book Information is beautiful by David McCandless. It’s a fascinating 250 pages filled with infographs that can absorb hours of your time and lead to some fascinating conversations. Infographics are visual representations of data and information that are [...]

Makebeliefscomix is most definitely my favourite online comic strip creator suitable for K-12.  Bill Zimmerman has had this site on line for quite some time but has recently added objects and each of the characters has emotions which make it easier to get more depth into the story.  Teachers notes on this site provide excellent [...]

Next Monday Linda Angeloni from State Library of Victoria is coming to Mildura to do a workshop on their wonderful Ergo resource.  This is a great site to support individual students and teachers and I’m looking forward to going through it with her (Chaffey Secondary College – 4.00 pm) – just in case anyone does [...]

So much is happening at school at the moment, it seems as if we had the early term break to build up steam for the rush.  A venture into using Toondoo with a group of literacy students last week was successful from a couple of different aspects.  Not only did the students enjoy the classroom activity but a number of them [...]

It says ‘11 craziest ways to browse Flickr photos’ .  Maybe so but some of these are so useful. For instance – Colorpickr - browse by colour to find a balance mix of colourful photos. Spell with Flickr - EduBeacon –  save the code and you have a great banner Cluster your Flickr photos according to their [...]