Google Apps – Round up
July 2, 2009 by Kelvin
Filed under Featured, Future, Recent News, Web 2.0, google, school 2.0
Well biggest decision of this year (at school!!) was what to do with a aging Mail Server and should we go Google School. Finally the decision was really made for me as: 1. Staff and students were already using personal gmail addresses to collaborate on work 2. Richard was pushing, pushing, pushing….. and 3. The [...]
Moodle …the hidden cost of Ownership
The Hidden cost of Moodle use is more than other LMS providers in the New Zealand market ……….YEAH RIGHT!!
Recently the Ministry MLE roadshow visited Tauranga and I had some calls from local teachers who attended asking about the hidden cost of running Moodle in a school as it was indicated that running Moodle could be [...]
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 [...]
Katikati Goes Google School
October 30, 2008 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under Web 2.0, google, school 2.0, websites
As you can see from the Image below we have begun our transition to Google School. Our initial reason was we see no point in going to ms exchange and find squirrel mail inadequate so why not try google. But then of course this gives us the benefits of having each student seeing a unified [...]
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 [...]
YouTube Clone
This is one of the reasons I will miss Katikati College when I leave for my new job in a few weeks.
A couple of weeks ago Richard found an open source YouTube clone called PHPMotion and said it would be cool to have this as a video server on our internal network. I got to [...]
Tag Crowd
April 14, 2008 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under Web 2.0, web tools
This is a tag cloud for the achievement standard 90658 in History, an interesting way to see what is important
appropriate attempt change content context description developed essay evidence examples historical includes issue organised paragraph period related relevant structure supported
created at TagCrowd.com
A day of video
March 28, 2008 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under Web 2.0, video
Played with Yahoo Live today and found it clearer than ustream. Thanks to John Spencer for forcing me to have a look. Yet another example of video becoming a huge part of the net
Then there is other options like qik which allows streaming from your video capable mobile phone.
Not quite sure how ready I am for streaming live from my study [...]
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 [...]
