Although it is a little old (June, 2004), I found the article at BBC News (The seven-year-old bloggers) inspirational. Crucially, some of the children who attend the club have improved their knowledge of IT far above what is required of their age group by the National Curriculum. “The Government target is for 80% of children […]
January will be review month with WILD Wednesdays. I’ll be offering repeats of popular past sessions: January 4th – Learning Macintosh OS X January 11th – Using digital cameras and iPhoto January 18th – SPAM E-mail filtering January 25th – Using Blogs in your classroom […]
According to an article on CNN, The National Assessment of Adult Literacy: “About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.” It goes on further that 19 million American adults have “below basic” skills, which […]
Placeopedia.com allows users to connect Wikipedia entries with their geographical location. What a great way to see what landmarks/historical entries are located near your home town. It allows anyone one to place entries on the map, so if your area is blank you can search Wikipedia for local landmarks and place them on the map […]
Using e-mail to communicate effectively – Nov. 30th This class will demonstrate how you can use e-mail to more effectively communicate with your peers, students, and parents, and how to save you time! SPAM E-mail filtering – Dec. 7th This session will show you how to set up Squirrel Mail to automatically filter out most […]
This Wired article brings up some very good points on how video games are teaching students today. Not how to carjack and shoot people, but how to manage a group of beings to solve problems (Pikmin), carry out intricate missions (Metal Gear Solid 2), and micromanage resources (Warcraft III). How did videogames become such successful […]
In Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up – New York Times, parents are worried that their kids spend too much time on the computer: In interviews and surveys many parents say that their children spend too much time in front of computers and on cellphones. Some parents worry that long, sedentary hours […]
The WILD Wednesday course for November 16th will be: How to use Atomic Learning Atomic Learning provides literally thousands of movie tutorials on using the software already on your machine, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. This course will show you how to access the tutorials and how you may use them in your classroom. About […]
This class will show you how to setup a blog for your classroom and allow your students to publish their work or comment on other published work. What you are looking at right now is a blog. A blog consists of posts, such as this one, or static pages, like the ESAL link at the […]
We’ve all come to love and rely on Google, but I was alerted to a new site today, Clusty. This search engine takes your search query, and “clusters” the results into different search topics. For example, I did a search on “volcano”, and not only did it give me a list of websites for volcanoes, […]