Archive for the ‘Websites’ Category
Friday, November 24th, 2006
Seminar 2 – Collaboration in an Online Environment
By Kevin Thompson (UltraLab / UltraVersity)
SUMMARY: A brief description of the UltraVersity project and a discussion of new collaborative technologies, focussing mainly on websites with a strong collaborative theme.
PROBLEMS:
Conflict between old and new ways of teaching & learning:
• “Solo” examinations vs. collaborative working
• Taught vs. ...
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Just a quick post this one, but hopefully useful to your Maths departments.
Take a look at these screenshots of GeoGebra. Now visit the GeoGebra WebStart page and click on the button (proper Java required). Amazingly this amazing piece of dynamic geometry software is not only free, but also runs without ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
I've been playing with the new Google Calendar (calendar.google.com) for the last few days and it's rather swish. A couple of niggles make it seem slightly beta, but my overall feeling is that could be useful for all sorts of situations.
Within secondary education I can't see that people would want ...
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Here's an interesting article about interactive whiteboards in the Grauniad that nearly passed me by. I definitely agree that there's an element of buzzwordiness/hype about the whole approach to IWBs by the British Government. As is always the case, however, there is definite educational benefit in there once the technology ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
In school it seems that kids nearly always go to google to search for anything. The majority of teachers I've come across see no problem in that - it's what they do when researching. Increasingly, web-savvy people are turning away from the one-stop-shop approach to searching in favour ...
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