Teach Tech
August 13, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Recent News, blogging, collaboration
I recently received a request for information on how ICT is used in a Hard Materials Technology class so I decided to start a new blog. I bought teachtech.co.nz back in January intending it to be a wiki for New Zealand Technology teachers but I realised that the Tech Teacher community was probably not ready [...]
Will it Stick?
January 21, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Web 2.0, blogging, collaboration, school 2.0
One of the things we all like to do here at TEK is throw stuff at the wall and see if it sticks and I have to say that most times in education you have to run up to the wall and push it on extra hard to make it stay. This can get [...]
Arthur Philip High School
November 23, 2008 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under collaboration
Last Monday was the first of our school visits in Australia where we were hosted by APHS. I took the photo below from the second story balcony.
We went back after visiting here in 2006 and to be honest we stole their great idea of school owned laptops. It is nice to see the contrast between [...]
A Lesson in Social Networking
June 22, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Web 2.0, collaboration, learning
The June 20th episode of Buzz Out Loud quoted this post from Webware explaining how social networking helps bridge the digital divide and equips young people with relevant skills.
Ironic that nearly all schools block these sites. Someone said to me last week that there is no evidence that technology (ICT) improves learning. It wasn’t until [...]
Disqus
May 22, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Web 2.0, blogging, collaboration, school 2.0
It is probably best to visit disqus.com to understand it properly but it is essentially turning blog comments into forum style posts. I have just added the disqus plugin to this blog to see how it works for us but I can see it being a valuable discussion tool for subject blogs on our school [...]
drop.io
has been around since November last year and is a very convenient file sharing web 2.0 app. No signup or e-mail address is needed, just create a URL and drop your file with password protection if you wish, it couldn’t be more simple. The creators of drop.io feel that your privacy is paramount and do [...]
Ideas for Graphics Classrooms & Visit to Kristin
November 30, 2007 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under School, collaboration, video
At the Cluster visit to Kristin School yesterday we saw a number of ideas that would be neat to implement. I was not only impressed by their grounds and cultural facilities but also the work their students appeared to be creating. Thanks must go to Andrew Churches for showing us around, I particularly enjoyed seeing [...]
Edu2.0?
August 27, 2007 by Mark
Filed under collaboration, school 2.0
When I open my browser my homepage displays iGoogle. The content on the page is customised with various tabs describing the content. When you add a tab Google will happily fill it up with feeds relative to the name of the tab, go ahead and call a tab ‘education’ and see what you [...]
Blogging for kids
June 1, 2007 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under School, blogging, collaboration
Quite important to share this information from David Warlick about blogging and while the statistics are from teachers who use blogging so they will be reasonably positive, I enjoyed the statistics regarding the care they take with their writing on a blog. I guess for our two colleges we have to get over the students [...]
What we can give
May 10, 2007 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under collaboration
Just had to blog about this, Dan Meyer, a high school math teacher in the States has created this lesson for introducing graphing to high school students. He then has offered it for download as a full 755mb disk image or in smaller packages. I know Microsoft is behind a teachers collaborative area in NZ [...]
