Archive for August, 2011

What does collaboration mean to you? This is a question that I have spent a few weeks contemplating. The reason for this started with a statement that a colleague made several weeks ago and has continued with reading some very interesting blog postings on similar topics. The statement started this though was by far the [...]

Here is another great clip from RSAnimate.  This one explores the relationship between languauge and behaviour/human nature.

21st century students video

Posted: August 17, 2011 in Education, Pedagogy

http://www.schooltube.com/embed/49bf9caf628daa5ba748

It is always refreshing to see how things are rating for use as educational technologies. Here is a list I found this morning.

This online plagiarism checker rates well by users. I am yet to check this one.

Here is another online resource for checking the originality and validity of written work. With a simple test it returned positive results  

Here is a useful online tool for validating the originality of your student’s work. I gave it a basic test and it returned positive results. See below:

Here is an interesting talk by Sir Ken Robinson.

Information on Mental Health by young people for young people.