Pedagogy

Wordling away :)

Here’s a fun site to create instant tag clouds based on 3 different sets of criteria: text you type in url of a site with a feed del.icio.us user name Here is one I created with this blog’s url: I see a few possibilities for this: Seeing frequently used words in websites or various texts, Wordling away :)

An Essential Question for EdTech

Integration by me: I realized this painting was ‘done’ when I had integrated colours from the daffodil’s cup into the petals. Recently I wrote a post on digital literacy within the wider context of literacy and, in writing, touched on what I realize is central to my own teaching: an essential question for educators today An Essential Question for EdTech

Literacies – digital and otherwise…or not.

It’s a recurring theme – how do we develop our students’ literacy skills? Literacy is “an essential component of a learning society” and as educators we strive to ensure that our students develop the keenest literacy (and numeracy) skills possible so they can be active and productive members of society…blahblahblah…so that they can belong. Lately Literacies – digital and otherwise…or not.

Interactive Whiteboard

A few months ago I found this interesting video about a home-made interactive whiteboard (a la smartboard) made by Johnny Chung Lee, from Carnegie Mellon University. Outside of the niftyness factor of making your own cool tool using a wii remote, this project can also create huge savings for schools. A smartboard can set you Interactive Whiteboard

Constructivism mind map

The content of this mind map is taken directly from Marcy Driscoll’s map, found on p. 384 of Psychology of learning for Instruction (2005). The point of this post is that I wanted to play around with mindmeister‘s map embed function. It’s pretty cool, at first I though that it had chopped off part of Constructivism mind map