Category: Professional development
#BYOD Tool: WordsEye
“WordsEye is cutting-edge technology that works by parsing text input into a semantic representation which is then rendered as a 3D scene. This process relies […]
#BYOD Tool: TextGrabber
This is the first in a planned series of posts that each focus on a tool that will be useful to both students and teachers […]
July 2015: My Reading
Two weeks of holidays certainly provided time for more books this month than last. I continue to enjoy the pleasures of rereading and science fiction, […]
Resources for Citizen Science
The Maximising the Capacity of Citizen Science for Science and Society conference run by the Australian Citizen Science Association has showcased a wide range of projects and resources that […]
Citizen Science in our Schools?
“Citizen Science is a partnership between individuals and scientists for investigating pressing questions about the world. The purpose of this conference is bring together the Australian […]
Subscribe?
Why do people still pay to subscribe to magazines, journals, websites and newspapers? For some time, to subscribe, one has entered an email address or added […]
March 2015: My Reading
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.” Liu Cixin March has been an exciting month of science fiction reading and some progress has […]
Google Classroom*
‘More teaching, less tech-ing’** My employer has provided Google Apps for Education (GAFE) since the beginning of the year. Actually, this started five years ago […]
February 2015: My Reading
There’s been a good variety of books completed this month including graphic novels, historical fiction, essays, memoirs, biographies, contemporary fiction, revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of […]
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Building Australia Through Citizen Science*
What place does citizen science have in our schools? I pinched the title of this article from a paper published this year by the Office […]