Edubeacon

I’ve taken a moment from packing boxes in preparation for house selling to blog about this new search engine - Boolify.com as I’m sure any educator will see it’s value as an aid to online searching and understanding the process of Boolean Searching. Aimed specifically at junior and middle years students (P-8), I believe it would also very [...]

Ideas building on ideas.  This is a simple idea but so powerful and adaptable. Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. This video is one of the examples of how it has has been adapted in various [...]

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 [...]