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 [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Are we confusing collaboration with sharing and conversation?
Posted: August 22, 2011 in Education, Leadership, ReflectionLanguage as a window into human nature: RSAnimate
Posted: August 19, 2011 in Education, Stimulus, YouTubeHere is another great clip from RSAnimate. This one explores the relationship between languauge and behaviour/human nature.
http://www.schooltube.com/embed/49bf9caf628daa5ba748
C4LPT: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011
Posted: August 16, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, Web 2.0It 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.
Online Resource: The Plagiarism Checker
Posted: August 11, 2011 in Education, Educational TechnologiesHere is another online resource for checking the originality and validity of written work. With a simple test it returned positive results
PaperRater: Online Plagiarism, spelling and grammar detector
Posted: August 11, 2011 in Education, Educational TechnologiesHere 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.

