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3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations
Published on 2010-05-10 07:50:00
Coming as I do from a background in language teaching that emphasises that the teacher should shut up and get the students to do the talking, I often feel uncomfortable doing conference presentations, many of which still follow the format of; speaker gets up in front of audience with presentation - does presentation - audience listen (try to stay awake) and desperately try to think of a few questions at the end to prove they were awake and listening.One of the gifted- Jamie Keddie.There are of c
3D Computer Games with Young Learners: Spore
Published on 2010-05-03 09:01:00
In a recent digital skills survey I carried out using Urtak I discovered that more than 50% of digitally skilled teachers don't feel able to utilise 2D and 3D computer games to achieve pedagogical goals (See survey), so I've been looking around and exploring some possibilities. The first of these is the Spore Creature Creator. Spore is a game which allows you to create creatures and evolve them along with their environment, all the way through to a space traveling society.The free trial creature
Creating Social Polls and Questionnaires Using Urtak
Published on 2010-04-20 07:44:00
I discovered Urtak a couple of weeks ago and took an instant liking to it. Urtak is a web based social polling application that enables you to very quickly and easily create online polls and questionnaires.The only thing you require to get started is an email address to register as it is completely free. Here’s a short tutorial showing how it’s done.Watch or download a higher quality video: Urtak tutorialThe polls it creates are pretty simple. You just type in 'Yes , No' questions or state
