Archive for July, 2009

DERNSW- No Internet… No Worries

July 21, 2009

DER! Some initial confusion may develop that a Netbook MUST HAVE Inter’net’, ‘net’work connection to be a useful learning tool? DER!
An easy way to introduce a COMMON, across everything tool is Microsoft OneNote. Plenty of ideas specific to education, tutorials & digital videos are waiting @ Google, YouTube & …
Every teacher & student MUST spend [...]

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A SDD Term 3 Outline

July 7, 2009

A word document with some ideas on Term 3 SDD Agenda has been inserted into this post. Your comments are welcomed!
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Glogster- Open for Business

July 7, 2009

http://www.glogster.com
 
Web Filter Unit
http://www.glogster.com/edu is available.
Teachers can register at the following address: http://www.glogster.com/edu/register/ Upon registration you will receive an email with student user names and passwords. Distribute them to your students and they will be able to log in.
 
Please send a screen shot (Print Screen key) of the blue DET “Blocked Site” message if [...]

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Grapevine cracks the ton !

July 6, 2009

The Grapevine has just scored its first century !!  We have now had our one hundredth subscription to the list and now have members from across a number of regions.
Please don’t forget that the list is a place for everybody to use to share ideas, ask questions, post links to information you have found useful, [...]

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DERNSW The truth is out there!

July 2, 2009

The challenge is to ‘discuss’ with your staff… what is a netbook? How is it different from a desktop, a laptop, a notebook?
Then … what is an ‘e’ netbook?
Is it a teaching & learning tool/companion or JUST a learning tool/companion?
Why?
And what will you call yours?
Glenn
‘The truth is out there’! These videos may help you find [...]

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DER Youtube Resources

July 1, 2009

Had issues in using Altavista Youtube Downloader @ work (school) to grab Youtube videos for use within Moodle and other media to create T&L resources for DER.
Try   http://keepvid.com/
This creates a *flv file. I find it’s a lot easier to manipulate an *.avi file so I then convert *.flv to *.avi with Altavista Youtube Downloader.
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