Posts Tagged ‘technology’
I came away from a recent conference which focused on using one “platform/toolset” for every job. Imaginable. Even if it didn’t really work as well as another tool. My takeaway from that conference was that I don’t want to be that type of educator. Ever. And you shouldn’t either. If a certain tool doesn’t do [...]
We head down to Tasmania this week for Minechat. Donelle and her students show us around their (mostly student administered) world. These guys do an amazing job with managing their server. People who administer their own server know that it is not the easiest job in the world to keep everyone happy and on the [...]
Continuing on with the amazing work Stephen Elford is doing with Minecraft and his Maths/Science students we take a look at a few more worlds he has created. In episode 5.1 we check out a gravity testing world. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
So it’s February. At the start of the school year I set Grades 3-5 off on using Google Sites as their digital portfolios. It’s about time I sit down and reflect on the process. Background This was not a formal school policy to use Google Sites, it was something I introduced to the teachers and [...]
Our Minechat vodcast rolled on this week with an episode tailored to hearing about how teachers feel when starting off with Minecraft. Michelle Chan joined us from Hong Kong to talk about the start of her journey using Minecraftedu and how they plan to use Minecraft in an upcoming unit of inquiry. Minechat Episode 1 [...]
