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Results of 2012 Student IT Survey – Impacts on strategic planning

The summer term at The Costello School is an important time for us to take stock and reflect on the technology and resources our students have and often bring in to school. For the past two years we...

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The iPad as an information consumer, collaborator and producer

I found this image and thought it would be a great one to share with fellow educators. The iPad in the classroom is a great way to become a dynamic consumer of knowledge, with a variety of apps that...

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Teachers Guide to Social Media

I found this info graphic today and thought I’d share it with you as it is a good overview as to how social media can be embedded into classroom practice. What are your thoughts? From: OnlineColleges.net

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Thinglink – Create interactive images in the classroom

Thinglink is a great tool for creating interactive images that can be used in the classroom. It is really straight forward, non fuss approach to authoring –  create an account, upload an image and...

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Organising Disorganised Boys via mobile technology #edchat

For reasons that are still not fully understood by many, boys are inherently poorly organised when it comes to planning their education. They drift from one day to the next engaging in lessons but lose...

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Putting the children you teach ICT to into context #edchat

I thought I would share what I do to help develop effective pedagogy from the off in Year 7. Baselining students is important, as is gathering information on reading ages, verbal/non-verbal reasoning...

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MentorMob – creating mashup playlists to deliver your learning content, some...

Today I stumbled upon MentorMob- a great free resource to help educators create learning playlists that can consist of a wide range of media including YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs, PDFs, and...

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Manage level of noise in the classroom with TooNoisy App

Found this great app today which I can see be of value to our primary colleagues as well as those of us who may have young children at home. TooNoisy turns your iPAD into a great sound meter, you’re...

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ICT Programme of Study consultation in Public domain

So here it is in the public domain, the draft consultation on the ICT PoS Towards a new ICT Programme of study for the National Curriculum in England: update and primer for discussion BCS, the...

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Keynote and Remote App for slick iOS presentations

I’ve been using an ipad for my assemblies and presentations in school for a while, having ditched powerpoint and laptop. Why I hear you ask? Well, quite simply I love the fact that I can dash into a...

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How to shorten Google FolderID’s and host websites from GoogleDocs

With many more educational institutions embracing the use of Google Apps and a Google EDU domain in the classroom a really useful tool is http://gdriv.es/ - allowing you to shorten into a more...

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Update to Google Forms

So, the new interface gives us a great way to get started with Google forms – more intuitive than the old one and a range of newer features that really help the workflow of an educator when using...

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Hosting E-Portfolio’s using Google Sites

With an increasing number of schools in New Zealand taking advantage of their Google Education domain I thought I would turn my attention to unpicking some of the pitfalls of using Google Sites to host...

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Update on my Whereabouts

Well if you are reading this you’re probably intrigued as to the nature of this post. Summing up briefly, I’ve left the UK for pastures new, having moved to New Zealand on Christmas Eve 2012. I’ve...

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The evolution of online schooling

A lovely infographic brought to you by the team at College Degree Search. Certainly makes you think of the role that educators will take in the future. What humble beginnings begot the massive...

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An Educational Reform – Desperately Needed!

Today I came across this well constructed article from 16 year old Rosalie Ward, talking about the desperate need for educational reform in the UK. It is a really well written piece that is clear and...

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Google Maps and Earth for Educators

So, Google has made quite an overhaul to Google Maps and Google Earth with some fantastic features for educators to get stuck in and create wonderful dynamic content for their classes and for students...

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Te reo M?ori choice for Windows 8, Office 2013, and the Internet

Great to see Microsoft developing M?ori language support within their product. Taken from the GovTech blog: For ten years Microsoft has been collaborating with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo M?ori (the M?ori...

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Mapping Children’s Chances

The biggest ever global picture of children’s well-being, education and family life has been assembled into a series of maps by the University of California, Los Angeles. “When you look at a map,...

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Getting all theatrical in class

Scenes for Learning is an excellent free online video resource hosting an ever growing series of powerful, theatre in education style videos for use in assemblies or the classroom. They are a great at...

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