The Educated Kiwi
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World War Two Combat studies guides.
Jul 2nd
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 with the Pacific and a number of resources on the US Civil War as well. Now the next step will be to get my students to create one of these using a task that I have traditionally done on paper regarding the post war period and New Zealand. Can I say agin how much I love finding stuff on the internet that we all share (cheers mel).
When the Flu strikes E-Learning comes into its own.
Jun 26th
As the whole family has now had the flu it has been a decidedly average week. It has however been a good chance to use Moodle to set my class their work and still give feedback without being there. Our Year 11 History site has been used extensively while I have been away, coupled with plentiful access to our school owned laptops I can make sure that we are still on track for finishing this unit this term.
I can see when the Pandemic mania was at its height a week ago why some schools looked at having a few weeks worth on their schools Learning Management Systems. That panic has however passed and we can now be happy to progress at our own pace with E-Learning development.
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors
Mar 22nd
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 for $200 NZD you can get a five user license and should get the use out of it.
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors.
Australia Streaking Ahead?
Jun 24th
On reading that NSW is going to abandon Microsoft Office in favor of Open Office I was impressed. The path of least resistance was to simply keep on with Office but no, in typical Aussie fashion they are going to thumb their noses and go with change. What does this mean for us? I guess we won’t be far behind especially after Douglas Harre’s statements at the recent edtech meetings. I do find myself agreeing that in 2001 the Microsoft agreement was a good idea as word processing etc was different just like I feel sorry for those clusters that came before us when there was so much less opportunity with ICT. I would like to make the transition sooner rather than later especially as staff are switching to Office 2007 anyway and have been giving OO.org out to staff to use at home or on family members computers. Many of course struggle to believe how can something be good if it is free.
Also in the article was the governments laptop for every student, well it would seem they meant computer access for every student but I digress I enjoyed reading the comments on many of the blogs surrounding this governmental decision and the overwhelming negativity within them. I worry that people don’t get the point.
Learning to change
May 11th
I always love finding new videos that just say how I feel so thanks to Rich White I found this one.
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