If you don’t want a picture of yourself on various blogs, wikis, forums etc. but you still want a picture you can make an avatar of yourself. One of the latest I come across, thanks to Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day, is DoppelMe. On the right is one I created today.
This is early [...]

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Today I had my very first go in a kayak in calm waters just south of Coromandel. You’ll have to take my word for it but that is me in the photo.
I get sea sick quite easily (even on the Devonport Ferry if the weather is a bit rough) so you can imagine the conditions [...]

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I had the good fortune to be invited to a Lions meeting tonight. And even better luck to be sat next to a teacher who is the IT lead at her school. I’ll call her Anne as she doesn’t know I’m writing about her.
Anne uses the computers in her year 6 class to great effect. [...]

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I don’t do plugs for my own work that much (well just a bit), but here is one for a new course I am doing:

Are you looking for ways to use interactive web tools to use in your teaching? But you don’t know where to start? Do you think it will take more time than [...]

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Great article at Stuff today about Fendalton Open Air School, which has won international praise for its innovative use of technology.
The children write about what they’re doing during the day on their blog, they share photos and post video to YouTube. These feed onto the school website during the day.
Parents can comment back and the [...]

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At the beginning of Feb I wrote about “8 Ways to find great edublogs“. Since then I’ve come across many more useful links so I thought I’d reorganize my original post a little to make it more user friendly for those starting to look at Edublogs. One things I forgot to say in the original [...]

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There are a lot of edublogs (blogs about education) out there. So how do you decide which edublogs to follow?In the “old days”, aka five years ago, you could just do a search and find them. I find these days that technique doesn’t work so well, so here is what I tend to do.

Ask friends/colleagues [...]

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There is still time to vote for your favourite edublogs but be quick as nominations close at the end of November. Instructions on how to vote can be found here.
This is my vote for “Best resource sharing blog” - Jane Hart’s “Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day“. If you don’t know Jane’s Blog give [...]

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Just trying out an add-in for Firefox called Dash Blog. It allows you to grab a web page as an image, crop it, draw on it, add arrows and text, and then publish to your blog. I Like it.
Great for those people who need to include screen shots for teaching.
What do you use for [...]

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If you haven’t signed up yet get over to http://learntrends.ning.com/ and register yourself for a free conference. There are some great speakers, including Nancy White who I had the pleasure to meet earlier this year in Wellington. Also there are Jane Hart, Robin Good, Tony Karrer, George Siemens, David Weinberger, Dave Pollard, Dave Wilkins, [...]

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