The story so far for Year 1 Educational Studies

The new face of Glogster

It's time to introduce Glogster, the Web 2 application that is both creative and innovative, to my Ed Studies students.  There is no denying that it is a wonderful tool for collaborating and sharing information, yet again I'm inspired by the work of others as I check out what's new with the application.  This time I stumbled across this YouTube video of 4th grade children in Hosmer School in Water town, MA.

Every day is a school day

One of the best things about my job is that I never stop learning.  Today my 1st year Ed Studies group were playing with 2animate to create animations of their favourite catch phrase.  I asked them to put them on their blog and reflect on the process as normal.  One clever student has given me a really cool way to add the active animation directly to the blog as blogger doesn't support gifs, using a cool website called TinyPic.com to grab the embed code!

Et voila!

Shift Happens

I know that this is an 'old' clip but as I teach and learn about education and technology I feel that it still encapsulates some of the issues that education of today faces.  When I say 'old' 2008 is old in terms of technological advancements. Yet this clip is still pertinent and applicable to today's learners. I have seen this used in an innovative seminar about the way in which technology should be shaping education and today a student found it on YouTube for her Wiki piece on Education of the Future.