The New Wave

Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is. Developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon out of [...]

iPhone and iTouch

As well as looking at wiimotes and cheap white boards we have started looking at using iPhones and itouchs at school
This post is being done with a wordpress package on my iPhone. It is quick using my wireless at home but not sure about uploading with 3g link yet. Also not very impressed with the [...]

Education and Creativity

Is education killing creativity?
British reporter Riz Khan put together a nice 20 minute interview last week with Sir Ken Robinson, our favorite creativity and education expert (and famous TED presenter). Even if you’ve seen Sir Ken’s 2006 TED presentation, you’ll find this interview an entertaining and thought-provoking refresher. Rizwan Khan is a veteran of the [...]

How to engage the net generation

Exposure to IT begins at very young ages. Children age six or younger spend an average of two hours each day using screen media (TV, videos, computers, video games), which nearly equals the amount of time they spend playing outside (1:58 hours versus 2:01 hours). Both significantly exceed the amount of reading time (39 minutes). [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]