Ideas about learning, ICT and pedagogy

Great videos about innovation and creativity: Part 1

Here follows a selection of videos I found particularly interesting dealing with ideas, innovation, creativity and the learning process.
Google:
Creativity Loves Constraint
Google:
The Founding of Google
Google:
Google Culture: Encouraging Innovation
Google:
Give Ideas Credit, Not Credit for Ideas
Google:
Encouraging Creativity

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Inspirational books that have changed the way I think…

My wife always gets annoyed with the amount of books I buy. When I started teaching about eight years ago my reading quickly diminished as guilt came upon me every time I picked up a good piece of fiction – ‘I could be doing some work!’. Eventually I realised that reading non-fiction both [...]

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Development of a new learning tool

I have been working for some time now on a new tool for the Interactive White Board and it is looking good and almost complete. It involves a set of 5 (possibly 6 haven’t decided yet) parts which enables teachers to create interactive activities and save these as Adobe Flash files (Flash Player 10 required) [...]

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21 Good links from Twitter

Here follows 21 useful links I posted on Twitter :

21st Century Skills website, very comprehensive with great links and discussions http://snipr.com/kg3p5
Love this T-shirt website,such an innovative idea to use things from within films rather than just the cover poster: http://short.to/gi5i
Looks like this could be an interesting book on teaching History: Constructing History 11-19, http://is.gd/16lQz
Create tension [...]

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New Tutorials for the Fronter Learning Platform

Part 1: Create a Welcome Page
This tutorial will show you how simple it is to use Fronter. The first step is to create a Front Page which can link to other Front Pages and this tutorial will show you how images and internal links can achieve that.

Part 2 :Upload resources
This tutorial will show you the [...]

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