Whilst researching I stumbled across this fantastic website that has an incredible collection of advertisements from throughout the ages. They are organised by topic, by decade. An excellent and interesting resource. Use the image below as a link to the site.
Archive for the ‘Educational Technologies’ Category
Find Sounds, A great resource for sourcing sounds for use in most places.
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:
21st century Ed. stimulus from New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: August 6, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, PedagogyI stumbled across this as I enjoyed my morning coffee and found myself asking many questions about how the raised points are being addressed in schools and educational facilities. This is a great clip to promote staff reflection. From Youtube: 21st Century Education This video was produced by the New Brunswick Department of Education to [...]
This looks very cool and I imagine could result in many educational initiatives in the classroom.
Dropbox: An online tech to synchronise and backup files
Posted: June 4, 2011 in Educational Technologies, Web 2.0Here is another great resource, actually more of a tool that enables you to synchronise files and data between computers and store your files online. Well worth a go.
Google Docs and collaboratively developed content
Posted: April 7, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, Student Samples, Web 2.0Part of the content stipulated by the syllabus documents of the courses I teach is that the students have to explore the concepts of group and collaborative work. I have developed many different strategies and units of work that utilise these important skills including; projects developed for local businesses by development teams formed by students [...]
