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There is a new timeline creator called timerime. I did not find it as easy or as fun as Dipity, and you can't use RSS feeds to automatically create them like Dipity, however you can collaborate on ...
I hope people have checked out the new "street view" on google maps. I looked at my house and found that I was a "google celebrity"..... I was snapped outside my house washing my car! It is absolut...
Celebrate science week! This is a sample of what my school is doing, all organised by Ms Lara Lang, science teacher extrodinaire!Science Week at CabraDay ActivityMonday Quiz for home in the morni...
On Thursday (14/08/08) I had the pleasure to run several computer sessions to enthusiastic teachers, part of the AGQTP to enhance teachers learning. Teachers at the session were introduced to Stell...
If you are having any trouble locating my RSS feed on this page my feed looks like this, so just paste this into your aggregators feed box.http://cyberspaced.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
I almost forgot to post the results from the podcasting workshops. It is quite a simple process to upload podcasts to the web, but it is also just as easy to place them in your shared area on your ...
On the suggestion of Meera on an earlier post, i checked out toondoo. A really flexible cartoon creator... although after I published my first one some of the speech disappeared! Here is my second ...
Thank you to all the people who went to my workshops. If you want to refresh your minds you can view the RSS and podcatching powerpoint by clicking here.If you want to see the podcasting powerpoint...
This is my Frappr map... Click on the "Add Yourself" button and leave a hello to say you have dropped by. >>I am going to keep the map for seven more days... I find it really annoying!
There are several sites that offer updates via RSS and many are enabling custom made RSS feeds. For example - if you know that MaryBlogs manages to find great stuff and tags it on delicious you ca...
So far I have blogged on Dvolver, Makebeliefcomix and now Bitstrips. I found Bitstrips through Brenda Frisk's blog Brennie's Bytes. You can make your own avatar in minutes, embed, print and save t...
I stumbled upon this by playing with a tagged RSS feed in del.icio.us - and it is a beaut. It is called Glogster and you can construct a funky looking page that can then be shared with the Glogster...
Everything you need to know about podcasting with audacity (almost). This series of screencasts by Tech-Ease give you the low down.Better still - let your students teach themselves!
If you are signed up for my CEGSA workshop on RSS, pod and vodcatching, I am giving away 5 DVD's to give away to the first five people who leave their name under this post. To add a comment click o...
Here is an excellent web based comic creator. Sadly you can't embed or download them, but you can email a link to people or print them out. To snag this one I had to do a screen capture (using the ...
Here is an excellent web based comic creator. Sadly you can't embed or download them, but you can email a link to people or print them out. To snag this one I had to do a screen capture (using the ...
I spent an evening venturing into the virtual world second life. In creating a username you have to have a last name and are presented with limited and reasonably uninspiring last names to choose f...
I attended an event last week - Science in the Cafe - an event hosted by SASTA. Dr Martin Westwell spoke about glimpsing the future of neuroscience... electrodes in the brain controlling parkinsons...
The holidays are approaching and winter is still here. Of course there will be fine days when my family and I can go an enjoy the beach which is on my doorstep, but I plan to have a holiday of a di...
Today was a grey winters Saturday so i decided to do science experiments with my children. My daughter grabbed her cheapish camera, we took some video and some stills. Then we put the files onto my...
Today was a grey winters Saturday so i decided to do science experiments with my children. My daughter grabbed her cheapish camera, we took some video and some stills. Then we put the files onto my...
The annual CEGSA conference is being held on 17th and 18th of July at the ASMS. That's in the second week of the holidays on the Thursday and Friday.A banquet of digital delights for teachers of al...
Plagiarism has become as easy for a student as mastering ctrl V and ctrl C. With these key strokes they can knock up and essay, a powerpoint - virtually anything in a very short space of time, with...
I have so far shown you all kinds of Google maps mashups... earthquakes, wikipedia entries and orbiting satellites.Well make your own! It is VERY easy. You can get students to document excursions, ...
I am a huge fan of Wikipedia. A user generated, user moderated encyclopedia sure beats the hell out of the A-Z World Book collection in the school library. I have heard many people bag Wikipedia fo...
I am a huge fan of vodcasts (video podcasts), the TV you want to watch, when you want to watch it. You subscribe with a podcatcher (media aggregator) the same way you subscribe to a podcast. I use ...
This tracking map pings your IP address (yes it knows where your children live!) and places a house where you live. Then you can magic up satellites in your area, specific satellites, even get a vi...
Holy mashups Batman! Tag Galaxy is a mashup that combines tag clouds and photos from Flickr. Put any word into "tag search" and it will display the tag cloud as a series of planets. Click on the ta...
Teaching geology? Want to see the earthquakes that have occured in the last week? Click here.Who would have thunk there were so many?
I went to the South Australian Museum on the weekend and there is a new exhibit... a cloud chamber! Watching the decay of unstable particles is mesmerising like watching a waterfall (gravity + wate...
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via the Twitter...
Hold the phone... just by adding any RSS feed that you (or anyone else) creates, Dipity creates an instant time line. I have decided I am going to set up my 15 year old son on Twitter (which genera...
Slideshare is the equivalent of youtube to slideshow presentations. You can search them, comment on them, download them and even embed the slideshows in to you blog (like so). There are groups that...
On Wednesday 28th of May I will be running a workshop at the ASMSto teachers about using web 2.0 tools in the Amongst other things the particpants will be creating their own podcasts on a science t...
Satisfying some of the most important features of web 2.0 (filter, share, connect, collaborate & generate) my year 10 students work is shown at this blog.I used a blog instead of a wiki as I am fam...
Edublogs is a free service for educators, it allows you to make blogs for an entire by sending a text file. Great Read more at here.
Feel free to listen to my experiment, made with audacity, the microphone that is integrated into my laptop and some sound effects care of soundsnap.com, and hosted on podbean, a podcast hosting sit...
I have been knocking myself out trying to find a wiki that is easy to use, easy to customise. The search may get easier with wikimatrix. The same people also do a podcatcher comparision and blog co...
This is a picture my son made with the free program Gimp. Unleash your creativity!GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo r...
Soundsnap is a website has a kagillion free sound effects, catalogued ready to listen to and download, sometimes in multiple sound format. Embellish your podcasts... unleash your creativity.
This would have to be the EASIEST and most FUN way for students to generate content. As you can see a short movie can be designed to convey an - concept or content.It is a website called dvolver wh...
For those of you have gone way past googling the word google, or a vanity search (putting your own name into a search engine) you probably know these tricks, but for those of you who haven't...Goog...
This is a possible teaching tool called sketchcast. I can see this being particularly useful with an IWB.Go to http://sketchcast.com to join (for free) and start sketchcasting in minutes! You can ...
The raw materials you will need for this lesson isstudents (stirred lightly)mp3/ipod OR microphone that plugs into a computeraudacity with mp3 encoder (free software)enthusiasmThere are teachers ou...
Scratch is free software that students can use to make animations, it is being used worldwide in various schools and educational organizations. The Scratch slogan is "Imagine · Program · Share". Th...
Hopefully you have been checking out youtube content that is available in easy to digest portions that is the same size as the average teenagers attention span. Saving them can be a pain... but hur...
Many of the youtube links you see in this blog link to videos that utilise screencasts. Screencasting software records what you are doing on your computer, while at the same time you can provide co...
I have already posted about San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum buying an island in the virtual reality world Second Life. Well Aunty has also established a presence in this VR world. At s...
Now I have discovered the power of bundling and tagging, there is a lot of content on the web that (sadly) I can't download, various streamed windows media player content and interactive flash vide...
So I hope by now you have checked out the dearth of educational clips on youtube that can stimulate students interest, understanding, discussion and generate an unquenchable desire for science! I h...
I was inspired when i saw Inspiration... one small hiccup, now my trial has expired i can't make any more mind maps. I heard my school has a site licence, so i envisaged getting around to pestering...
This is really quite amazing and needs to be seen to be believed. If you have a data projector you can use a Wii remote set up as an interactive whiteboard! This youtube shows you how to do it, and...
(Ok, so now it looks as if I am being paid by Google to tout their wares. I don't actually use Google desktop... I don't need to as i have Vista.)If you are using XP or 2000, you can use Google Des...
