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Archive for December 9, 2009
Edublog Awards 2009 – Voting Open
42 years ago
by tombarrett
in Blogging
I am thrilled to have been nominated again this year for the Edublog Awards. It has been a busy year for me, this blog and the resources I have nudged along – not to mention my Twitter account!
It would be wrong of me not to acknowledge that people have taken the time to nominate this space and the other resources, so I extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who did.
If you have a minute you know I would be grateful if you voted for this blog as well as the “Interesting Ways” resources which we all share ownership of. Amazingly I have been nominated in 6 categories this year, so there is plenty of choice to cast your vote, please follow the links below to the polls.
Best Educational Uses of Video / Visual (For the “Interesting Ways” resources)
Best Individual Tweeter (@tombarrett)
Best Educational Tech Support Blog
Voting ends on Wednesday 16th December 2009
It is always great to be considered alongside the other hard working teachers and professionals in the educational technology community. Thanks again for the nominations and good luck to everyone involved.
Ban Consoles at Home
102 years ago
Imagine for a moment you have a Nintendo Wii, or similar, in your classroom (perhaps you do already) which you use for games based learning. Topics or subject units you teach are centred around the use of a specific game and you are in the middle of one such topic.
One day a parent comes into your class and tells you that as a punishment at home their child is banned from using their own games console. The parent knows about the work going on in your class and wants to know what you are going to do about it?
What would you do?
This interesting situation was posed to me recently (some of you might be able to figure out in which context) and is completely fictional. Nonetheless it is a very interesting point for discussion with more and more games based learning work going on in schools.
