How Does Technology Enhance Learning? Our school has recently implemented a 1:1 iPad programme in the primary school. Every student from Nursery to Grade 5 has their own iPad to use at school. This is a wonderful tool for students and teachers to use as we are now able to access a device at any […]
According to Wikipedia Infographics are defined as: “graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly.” Nathan Yau’s website, ‘Flowing Data‘, has some excellent tutorials on how to read and understand infographics. He also offers a four week course for Visualization in R (a coding language). The infographics on this […]
Digital Story or Video? Digital stories are tricky to define. Is it a video of any length? Does a picture slide show count? Is a documentary a story? Does audio over an image suffice? Does it have to be fiction? What exactly is it? The University of Houston has a digital storytelling website that explains: Digital […]
The Journey from Zzz to Zen Two months ago I delivered a presentation to class parents as part of our ‘Meet the Teacher’ night at school. The presentation contained all of the necessary and relevant information for the school year ahead. Here is the presentation: After reading the Presentation Zen blog by Garr Reynolds , and […]
Images are everywhere. It is estimated by tech firstpost that there are 1.8 billion photographs being shared online everyday. Internet Live Stats reports that 2,699 instagram photo’s are uploaded every second. As images play an increasingly significant role in our society, should we as educators be valuing and using this exponential resource more effectively? Images are […]
Teachers are adept at wearing many hats. In a ‘normal’ week in a primary school a teacher may also take on the role of coach, leader, nurse, engineer, editor, designer, cleaner, peace-maker, philosopher or facilitator. The list is endless and ever changing and now often includes blogger, web-designer, vlogger, social media marketing managers and many more roles. The hurdle […]