Posts Tagged ‘howto’

4D Books, Cover Work and a Retweet – QR Codes in Education

Continuing the narrative on QR codes David Mitchell, this past week, took to stage at #tmbpool3 demonstrating how he has used QR codes to connect the myriad of online content produced by his students to the work they produce in their books. Using a beautifully designed Prezi and actual students books he showed how he [...]

QR Codes in Education: A Burgeoning Narrative

Since I last published thoughts on how QR Codes could be used for learning in a short audioBoo (click the link or scan the QR Code on the right), there has continued to be a growing and significant buzz about QR Codes on Twitter and in the blogosphere. A narrative is developing as ideas, experiences and [...]

Instapaper “Read Later” Button For Your Blog!

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while now or have followed me closely on Twitter, will probably know that I am a huge fan of Instapaper. For the uninitiated, it is a service that allows you to save articles to be read later that you can access from your iPhone, [...]

Google Docs In The Classroom – Part 3: Assessment

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This is the third in a series of four posts about my experiences of using Google docs in the classroom. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Part 3: Assessment (or 1-2-1 Teaching and Learning) I will begin this part of the series by offering a little contextual detail which will help [...]

Assessment for Learning

At the beginning of every school year my colleagues and I attend our annual school conference. A theme for the year is established, a key note speaker booked and a full agenda planned with the intent of creating a buzz and anticipation about the new school year. This year’s conference had a ‘back to basics’ [...]