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
Inspirational books that have changed the way I think…
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 stimulated my [...]
Development of a new learning tool
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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) [...]
21 Good links from Twitter
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
New Tutorials for the Fronter Learning Platform
June 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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