Last week, Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told schoolkids to throw away their textbooks to help the state avoid bankruptcy. He referred to textbooks as being “outdated” and too expensive. California currently spends more than $400m annually on school textbooks. Instead of textbooks, the Californian Learning Resource Network will evaluate and list free and commercial online […]
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There is growing debate around what education in the 21st century should look like and there is certainly a lot of dissatisfaction with the current model. This debate is predominantly taking place outside of Ireland, in the US, the UK, Australia, Singapore and in many Scandinavian countries. Organisations such as Futurelab’s 2020 project, The Metiri
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Web 2.0 tools have made it possible for anyone to use digital media in their webpages or blogs. This article from the Digital Inspiration Blog provides a handy reference forembedding almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
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Here are some notes I shared with those in attendance at the highly successful CESI Meet on last Friday evening, Friday 13th 2009. The event was a huge success and those in attendance all walked away with some new knowledge. Well done to the organisers on a great event. I was sharing some work I
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If you are new to ICT or feel you need a refresher, you should try an online course onALISON. Based in Galway, ALISON provides high-quality, easy to follow interactive multimedia courses. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners. All you need to do is register yourself by choosing your own name
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We have been doing a lot of work with schools over the past two years usingPhotoStory, a free tool from Microsoft – yes I did say free from Microsoft. Easy to use and great for combining photos, text and music, it is being used to great effect by young pupils to create stories in history,
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