The Educated Kiwi
Stu’s Double Jeopardy, Great fun for basic facts.
As much as it pains me to have to boot into my windows virtual machine (feel the mac snob coming out in me there) Stu’s Double Jeopardy makes me do just that.
While I have made up Jeopardy games before in Powerpoint and lately in Smart’s Notebook this is so easy and looks so good. There is also a lot of information on the site in the way of help files for everything from creating custom skins to adding music files. I found that my Year 11 class took about 45 minutes on the American Government Review game and now look forward to seeing what their recall is like come moodle test time.
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World War Two Combat studies guides.
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Recently @Moodlegirl sent me through a powerpoint of the War in Europe. This animated powerpoint show allowed us as a class to go through what happened very quickly as a recap at the end of the topic. I figured this must come from somewhere and there it is on the Combat Studies Institute pages, along
What was the better lesson?
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
So yesterday I spent time preparing a lesson for my year 11 History class. The reasons being two-fold one, I had an observation lesson for my appraisal and I always like to show some technology off and two, It’s nearly the end of the term and I need to get this Origins of World War
Just for giggles I made our Moodle an approved platform
about 1 year ago - No comments
So for the past week I’ve been pretty busy moodling. I’d managed to stuff the database at school somehow but after a quick upgrade and backup during the changeover between periods all was settled. So now we carry on with the KAMAR (our school management system) and Moodle integration. We really want to get this
AIR CON, Global Climate Change
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
I just popped into the local post shop today and skimmed through Ian Wishart’s AIR CON. Since I am studying Climate change with my Year 10 class this seemed interesting. It is a look at the other side of the debate on climate change and since I share clips from An Inconvenient Truth it does
Timelines get a spruce-up with beedocs timeline 3d
about 1 year ago - No comments
Some people collect stamps, it would appear that I collect applications (much to @natsyann’s disgust and our visa cards limit) but I just purchased Beedocs Timeline Why Timelines? Bee Docs Timeline is software for Mac OS X that makes it easy for you to present historical events in a way that reveals connections and clarifies
Newsmaker.app Great Fun
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Since Learning@School we have been waiting for the release of Newsmaker for Mac and PC. Now we have our full site license we can move on from our enhanced garageband podcast to full video. In using the app I have found it to be very simple with a small installed size (27mb) and a very
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors
about 1 year ago - No comments
While the KKC and MMC Maths and Science classes have been indulging in echalk resources for some time now, they have recently released resources on History. With particular interest to me were the tudor and stuart resources for yr 13 History and as we already have a license I can get straight into it. So
Clasus Challenge IWB pricing
about 1 year ago - No comments
Clasus is a Portuguese company that sell Interactive Whiteboards that look like Promethean IWBs, act like Promethean IWBs and are Promethean IWBs under a different name (allegedly). Screenflex (no web site as yet) are the Irish company attempting to sell these boards for, in their words, “about a grand and a half less than Promethean.”
Wiimote whiteboard roundup
about 1 year ago - 13 comments
So we have had our first week of having the wiimote in a class at Katikati College. Next week we deploy to another eight classrooms across the cluster as well as three at Omokoroa No 1 School. So far we have built some of our own pens and brought some from penteractive.us who were very
wiimote, so easy
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
To further advertise the simplicity of using the wiimote pens this video shows my Two year old daugther using the wiimote irpens on the projector in the lounge. She now loves standing on the toy box and drwing on the wall. good one dad YouTube – wiimote, so easy. Share and Enjoy:
about 1 year ago
Hey Richard, glad you like it and thanks for the write-up. It does also run in Windows on your Mac using Parallels!
Not sure if you spotted my other little app – http://studentresponsenetwork.com – while the server module requires a Windows PC, the clients can be Win/OSX/Linux. See what you think.
about 1 year ago
Very easy to heap praise on something as good as this. And in the process of the studentresponse network now. School was in the process of spending thousands on clickers. Keep up the good work.