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5 Fledgling “Interesting Ways” Presentations
Currently there are close to 30 different presentations exploring Interesting Ways to use a whole variety of different types of technology in the classroom.
Here are a few of the most recent fledgling resources, please let me know if you would like to contribute by adding an idea.
Don’t forget to explore the rest of the Interesting Ways resources.
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Shared Search – Sign Up to Help Out
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I have a new crowd-sourcing idea up my sleeve that needs your help and input. It is all based around the idea of a collaborative search engine that can be constructed together – Shared Search.
Elevator Pitch
A community of educators work together on a Google custom search engine (CSE).
The CSE can be for any specific topic
Tech-Neutral Interesting Ways: IDEAS WANTED!
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The presentations below, from the Interesting Ways series, are deliberately tech-neutral and much more broad than their counterparts.
It would be great to build some new momentum with them again and gather together some further ideas from the community. Of course these ideas may well include the use of technology but there is no expectation for
CASTLES – a new Curriculum Catalyst Document
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The Curriculum Catalyst is about sharing ideas for curriculum content. It provides people the opportunity to contribute to a pool of ideas. Castles is the latest topic.
(1)Topic ideas are added into Google Moderator, (2) voted on for interestingness (3) an open Google Doc is created for the top topics and (4) teachers and educators add
3 New “Interesting Ways” Resources
about 1 month ago - View Comments
Three new presentations have been kickstarted and are great additions to the collection. Interesting Ways to use the iPad, Google Search and Google Maps in the classroom. Please take a look and consider adding an idea to one of them. I will be updating the links on the collection page too.
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TeachMeet is entering its fifth year and the unconference for teachers, by teachers has helped hundreds – maybe thousands, in fact – to try out something new, alter the way they already teach and learn, join a community of innovative educators or completely transform their way of working.
The hope was that the model would spread.
#newleaders
about 5 months ago - View Comments
Doug Belshaw and Stuart Ridout were instrumental in the production of the fantastic #movemeon book,
“Tips, ideas and suggestions for all teachers from the Twitter community.”
The book was created from the tweets of fellow Twitter users, all collated with the #movemeon hashtag.
Another effort was soon started after this one titled #newleaders. I will soon be
The Curriculum Catalyst – Stage 2 – Contribute Your Ideas
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The Curriculum Catalyst is about the online education community coming together to produce practical resources that we can all use to support curriculum development.
At the end of last weekend the Catalyst had over 280 topic ideas for the curriculum and over 70 people had voted more that 3000 times for a top topic. It turned
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about 6 months ago - View Comments
The Curriculum Catalyst has made a great start, it is only a few days old but 61 people have submitted 193 ideas and cast 1,896 votes. Thankyou to all of you who have helped so far.
Out of those 193 topic ideas will emerge one. For Stage 2 we will take that topic and crowd-source ideas,
The Curriculum Catalyst – Stage 1 – Add your ideas and votes
about 6 months ago - View Comments
It is clear from our collective efforts as an education community we can create some excellent resources. The “Interesting Ways” series has illustrated how single contributions to a collective can be extremely useful. This has been underlined by the “Maths Maps” too.
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EDUtalk at BETT 2010
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I am delighted to welcome John Johnston, an Education ICT Development Officer in North Lanarkshire, Scotland for a guest post. John first inspired me to start blogging and has continued to do so ever since then. It is a great pleasure to have him as a guest explaining about another of his innovative projects: EDUtalk.
I’ve
about 4 months ago
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about 6 months ago
Very interesting ideas! Thanks for sharing! I'm studying elementary education at the University of South Alabama, and anything to help me become a tech literate teacher when I get there is widely accepted!
about 6 months ago
Hi Tom – great new interesting ways. Please could I have access to the comprehenison one to add a few ideas?
Thanks