#15MINPLN No. 9 – Use Twitter To Connect With People Like You
Short version: Work out how other educators are using twitter for their own professional development and to support one another, and do the same. Image: Some rights reserved by Phillie Casablanca via...
View Article#15MINPLN No. 10 – Set Up A Blog For The Bigger Stuff
Short version: Set up a blog using blogger.com where you can share your own resources, ideas and observations deserving of more space than 140 characters. Image: Some rights reserved by EB05 Long...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Bonanza
This is potentially brilliant for schools using Google Apps for Education. A whole raft of apps have been added for administrators to cherry-pick from so that students can access these under their one...
View ArticleExperiments in Online Drawings
As a teacher of Economics encouraging use of collaborative tools such as Google Docs, I am keen to find a good solution for students to (co-)create drawings they can quickly access, share and publish...
View ArticlePosterous–Easy Blogging With Huge Potential
Posterous is great. I’ve just started using it, and am very excited at the potential it holds for connecting students to online learning in a meaningful yet easy way. Image Source Lots of folk seem to...
View ArticleNew Technologies and the Future of Learning
This is an informative presentation by Steve Wheeler (Twitter: @timbuckteeth) published to Slideshare on 15th June 2011. Wish I’d seen the original presentation. Check the key books referenced midway...
View ArticleAugmented Reality … #EdTech’s Next Big Thing?
Try Augmented Reality out for yourself using your computer’s web cam – details at the end of the post. This is just around the corner. According to the 2011 Horizon Report, this technology will take a...
View ArticleGetting Organised With Computer Technology
Over the past three weeks I have delivered three presentations at assemblies for Secondary students showcasing: the Zero Inbox approach to email management ways that this can be applied using Microsoft...
View ArticleUsing Technology (that might disappear) to Support Learning
Image: Some rights reserved by kaktuslampan I submitted an article for my school’s weekly newsletter recently, published on 24th August here and it is reproduced in its entirety at the end of this...
View ArticleResources for #TECHEX2011 Presentation – Building Personal Learning Networks...
Here are resources I will refer to during the session at TECHEX2011, for the benefit of the audience. http://opengecko.com/tag/15minpln/ The presentation itself: 15MINPLN Presentation View more...
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