Posted on Sunday, 5 February 12, 08:33, by James Michie, under
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Professor Keri Facer presenting at Learning Without Frontiers 2012. In her talk, Keri views schools as being “one of the last public spaces”, where communities can have a significant impact on shaping future learning; tackling the significant cultural, technological, environmental and economic challenges that we are facing in the 21st century. She suggests that, what [...]
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I will be (virtually) attending and speaking at #TMRoehampton this coming Tuesday. I intend to give an update on my current thinking, re: AFL and Google Docs. In preparation I created a new series of slides to support my talk. They can be viewed below, along with some useful, related links. Blog Posts: Google Docs [...]
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nvALT, my preferred text editor, has been the constant tool in my writing and note making setup for more than a year now. There have, however, been a few changes to both the way I write blog posts and the way I create and sync notes with my Android phone. Therefore, I felt a brief [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 9 August 11, 17:54, by James Michie, under
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It is almost three months since I took delivery of a Refurbished 11″ MacBook Air and I can confidently state that it is the best laptop I have ever used – lightweight but robust, elegantly minimal, powerful and fast. Taking inspiration from my favourite podcast, I’m going to discuss why the Air is more than [...]
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I recently shared on Google+ how I had been using iPads and Garageband to help my Year 8 class to improve the quality of their writing. This is a reworked version of that post. Thanks to John Johnston and Helen Morgan (amongst others) for sharing their thoughts. The learning… I’ve been using iPads with my [...]
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