Plans afoot with diigo and skype

Over the next few weeks in school I’m beginning to push out in some new areas with regards to using technology in the classroom. I’m beginning to feel relatively comfortable and proficient with podcasting, through the use of audacity. I hope in the future to start the process of getting other teachers in my school [...]

Share Tabs

With thanks to langwitches for pointing me in this direction. Share tabs seems to follow on neatly from my previous post on Diigo, because it is another website that deals with making the internet more accessible, with the added bonus of being of great use to teachers. The idea of the website feels like one [...]

Diigo.com

The subject of this week’s blog is diigo, a website that I have been getting to grips with in the past week or so. I think it offers a real chance to change practice within the classroom. Firstly, its features: Diigo is a free service that allows you to trawl the web and bookmark websites [...]

Multiple choice essays

This leaves me a little worried, as an English teacher……..

Wii’s and social gaming

I was watching my girlfriend’s nephew today try and get his Wii to work. I suppose I’ve missed out on this current generation of games machines, mainly because I know I don’t have the hours in the day to play them (and memories of being very, very addicted to Final Fantast VII). Anyway, to get to [...]

Eduism and Audacity – Open Source

  So, as I see it, the term ‘Open Source’ seems to mean something that is free and can be developed and added to by anyone who downloads that. I find it remarkable and incredibly promising that such an idea exists. I know I’m sounding all airy-fairey and preachy there, but I do find it [...]