Google Docs – quick and easy collaboration on a document.

Recently I tried something different with my year 12 IT class. I wanted each student to research a small element of a theme topic and then to share that with the rest of the class. I could have used a wiki but I went for Google Docs. Google Docs allows you create a variety of [...]

Blog as a journal or process diary?

There is post from last year where Bob wrote that there was a student last year who used a blog to keep track of her Major Design project in DT. It may be beneficial if we as the Science department looked at students keeping a blog instead of their journal. A group blog would be [...]

Posting an Entry

This is a film the devasting earthquake in southern China

Using blogs in teaching

College professor Barbara Ganley, who uses Weblogs extensively in her courses, asks “How can a teacher expect her students to blog (or to use any other tool, strategy or technique) if she doesn’t use it herself, exploring the impact it has on her thinking, writing, research and creativity?” (Ganley, 2004b). She also says
And as we [...]

What do you want to do?!

Just thought I’d share this site with you.
They talk about the internet becoming the “killer application”; that in the future (now?) much of our processing needs will be carried out online. In other words, you won’t need applications on your pc/mobile device, you only need a suitable browser and internet connection to access the online [...]

Portable Applications

What a great idea!!
Applications that you save to a portable storage device (flash memory or portable HD) and take with you to whatever computer your working on. Combine this with a UMPC (ultramobile personal computer)and you’ve got a lot of serious portable computing power. A classic use of this technology is to have a portable [...]

Keeping Track of Posts

If you start to use a number of blogs it can be hard to keep track of what is going on. Thats what RSS feeds have been designed for.
There are two feeds on the IT Matters Blog. They are on the right hand side of the window and usually have this
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IE can check these [...]

Posting for the IT Group

OK so far we have John, Martin, Sharon and Mary added to the blog, it doesn’t take long.
Sometimes it hard to think about what to say (although not hard for some).
How about some discussion on Portable Apps. I know John and Martin have been doing some work on them, maybe we could hear something [...]

Second Classroom

This is an interesting project that has recently started with some of the people in our diocese
Second Classroom is a project to explore ways in which educators can create projects for students using immersive media such as Second Life, MMORPG and social networks to create authentic learning.

Have a look, if you are interested you [...]