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Maths & Science in action! – 17 people in a Korean Tae Bo class accidentally tapped into a skyscraper’s resonance frequency, forcing a two day evacuation.
Great article on How To Create a Captivating Presentation by Mark McGuinnes. Thanks to Doug Belshaw for the link.
Back in May I wrote a fairly lengthy piece looking at IT Provision In Secondary Schools in 2011. Go read it if you haven’t, it’s quite comprehensive and sparked a good debate. I’ll be here when you get back ready to talk a bit more about iPads…. More than just Angry Birds! …Read it? Good….
Notes Plus iPad App: I’ve been planning a presentation to an eLearning working party at school on the potential for iPads as a 1-2-1 solution (following on from my previous thoughts) – more to come on this when I have time to write it up properly. Decided it was time to give my stylus a…
A QR Code Periodic Table of Elements. Love this use of QR codes. I’ve accused them of being elitist url shorteners before but this is a great use. Science is an obvious subject for their integration. Have heard of Science departments adding QR codes to their equipment linking to web pages explaining how they should…
Does Gove Get Games? A strangely positive sounding report from the great Edge Magazine quotes Gove speaking at The Royal Society, in particular referring to the excellent www.mangahigh.com that Marcus du Sautoy has had some input in. “I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and…
Hype for Mac – HTML5 Animation For Schools? This looks really nice. Key-frame animation software on the Mac that creates beautiful looking HTML5 websites. This could be great for the animation units & web creation units of things like OCR Nationals & Creative iMedia. Anyone used this / recommend it?
So Google have started releasing their new social product Google+ or Google Plus. And it looks interesting if a little familiar to Twitter & Facebook. Of particular interest is their attempt to allow you to segment your acquaintances and share certain information with certain people via the ‘circles’ feature: This makes sense – I’m often a bit uncomfortable with my mix…
Estelle Morris on Gove – Is there a master plan? Amongst the consternation with Michael Gove this weekend – particularly his comments on the Andrew Marr show about the upcoming strike, Estelle Morris gets to the heart of the issue. Where is the long term plan amongst the cost cutting and curriculum narrowing? There surely…
Minority Report meets a Wii and has lovely babies! Oblong’s ‘Mezzanine’ looks truly amazing! Just take a step back and imagine a classroom of the future equipped with one of these and an iPad for each child. Effortless and rich in content – I hope Promethean & Smart are quivering in their pampered boots! Source:…