The Wii Experiment…

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My blog as a word cloud

After seeing a similar blog post from Jess Mcculloch I thought I would put my blog through the word cloud generator Wordle to see what the most prevalent words were. It’s indeed good to see that Students feature quite strongly and so to do Mobile and Nintendo, two of my special interests. So what does [...]

A really cool mobile learning tool

Last Night I stumbled across a fantastic little mobile tool called Qipit. Now I’ve talked before about tools that have instantly got me thinking about the possibilities they present for classroom use, but this one takes the cake. So what does it let you do? Well say for instance you only have a hard copy [...]

Cheating on Exams with SMS?

 
On Monday the students in my VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies class completed their end of semester exam. Now I’m opposed to the idea of high stakes testing in an exam format,  but it is however how they will be assessed in the final year so they need as much practice as they can get. Anyway throughout [...]

On The Road Reflections from day 1 @ the VITTA Annual Confrence

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Creating a $50 Interactive Whiteboard

 
If you’ve been following me on Twitter this week you would have heard my ravings about creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo Wii remote. As you may also be aware our school recently purchased a Nintendo Wii, which gave me the perfect opportunityto test out this exciting concept.  To make this happen you will also need [...]

Cheating in the Coffee Shop…A lesson?

A couple of days ago I was in a Coffee Shop buying a foccacia (I don’t drink coffee) and while I was waiting I noticed a blackboard that had mystery song lyrics written upon it. The challenge was that if you could guess the lyrics you would get a free stamp on your loyalty card. Now [...]

Live streaming from your mobile (cell) phone

Yesterday I ran into an idea through a tweet that got me really excited. Some of you may know that I have just returned from a trip where the students used mobile phones to record audio blogs that then transfered to our class blog. Well on the discovery of  www.qik.com I was wishing I could [...]

My Classroom as a Videogame…Will this work?

 

I was over at Classroom 2.0 the other day and was reading some interesting posts from people who have been transforming their classrooms into video games. It instantly got me thinking about how I could adapt this idea to suit my classes and just how engaging something like this would prove to be. Throughout the [...]