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Daniel Pink is well known for his book Whole new mind which has become one of the hallmarks in the discussion of thinking and creativity.  In this video he is referring to motivation in the workforce but his message applies equally to schools and the classroom. To achieve engagement and therefore motivation, says Pink, the [...]

It’s almost the end of Term 1 here in Australia, so that’s one quarter of this school year over.   What did your students learn over these past weeks?  Did they learn a series of facts about some historical event they fail to see any connection with in their personal lives.  That there seems no purpose [...]

It’s interesting to note that during this TED Talk by Tim Berners-Lee he didn’t once mention the semantic web but approaches it as an explanation of the future of the web and the potential of data access.  As the creator the concept of html and the internet as we know it today, he obviously has [...]

Tonight’s Libraries Sunraysia group meeting had a Technology theme.  It was an opportunity for me to share with library colleagues in the district a few simple applications that can be successfully applied to the classroom among them being:  Voicethread, Animoto and Toondoo.  The discussion also lead to moving beyond Facebook to the more professional Diigo network along with the [...]

As YouTube fills up with every bit of junk one could imagine, the good stuff is getting buried. This is more than likely what has fostered the development of TeacherTube. On exactly the same principle as YouTube, TeacherTube has a fabulous lot of useful video clips useful for the classroom. Better still, the newest feature [...]