Posts filed under 'ICT General'
Copyright and Commons
A video from YouTube explaining Creative commons in Australia - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S3aZoe5VK-c
Creative Commons for searching for media - www.searchcreativecommons.org
An alternative - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Add comment November 2, 2008
More resources for Interactive Whiteboards
Resources and links from EDNA – http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_theme_pages/pid/544
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for objects that can be used on an IWB – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html
Interactive Maths - http://www.intmath.com/
Good interactive sites for use with an IWB – http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/tutorials/whiteboards.html#sites
Add comment October 28, 2008
Blogs in Schools
Here are some examples (some from Pam Thompson) of blogs being used by schools in a variety of ways:
Pam’s blog - http://pamthompson.edublogs.org/
Corrimal East Public School – http://www.corrimaleps.blogspot.com/
1 comment October 8, 2008
Free image manipulation software
Gimp a free image manipulation for Windows - http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
1 comment September 13, 2008
Comic Life
A great example of Comic Life from the PlasQ site – Robert Fripp and Tony Levin sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands – on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour - http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=11389
A reminder of how to use Comic Life in the Classroom - http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69
TeacherTube has a great video on Comic Life - http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cc5b9f5a2aaa74da584e
Some examples of Student work from the Comic Life Community Forum - http://homepage.mac.com/adam_bezark/comiclife/
Add comment September 10, 2008
Creating avatars
To create an online avatar - http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini
To draw an avatar/picture - http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
Add comment July 15, 2008
Create comics on-line for free
This site allows students to make comics on-line - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Add comment July 15, 2008
ICT Mindtools
A great site from Margaret at New Town Tasmania with tools that challenge students to engage in higher order thinking - http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/default.htm
2 comments June 11, 2008
Blogs
There is a group for bloggers both new and old at Edna. You can join various interest groups free of charge by registering on-line, but this one has examples of blogs, blogs in the classroom, how blogs can be used etc - http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1862
Add comment June 10, 2008
Web-based Social and Collaborative Learning
A report from Concord High School in Victoria demonstrating how they use Web 2.0 solutions for Web-based social and collaborative learning - http://www.concordsch.vic.edu.au/Concord_School_Web-based_Social_and_Collaborative_Learning.pdf
1 comment June 9, 2008
