Using Geocached QR Codes for Revision in a PE Classroom

Today I completed an alternative revision session with my senior VCE Physical Education students prior to a major assessment piece next week. In the past I have completed the standard revision activity with my students that requires them to answer questions on a page. However this time I went around the school with a handheld [...]

Learning the Skeleton with QR codes

Today in my junior Physical Education class we started our work on learning the human skeleton, which includes being able to identify the major bones. Now this time last year I introduced the students to ‘Harold’ the model skeleton, so this year I did the same thing, however one thing was very different….
 Harold had undertaken a [...]

Animoto – Your Personal Video Editor

I’ve been looking for an easy video editing web2.0 tool that quickly and easily creates professional looking videos at the push of a button, literally. Once you have signed up for an account at Animoto, you then move through the sleek and comfortable interface to create your video. Now, In my usual blog post I would go [...]

Turn your Wiimote into a Cool Data Logger

Recently I had a discussion with Ben Jones who shared with me a nifty little application called the ‘Wii Analyzer’ ,that turns your Nintendo Wiimote and Bluetooth enabled computer into a powerful movement analyser.
So what do I mean by analyzer? Well basically, once connected you have real time mapping of the forces and movements applied [...]

Homework for the Teachers?

I was recently asked by the Principal to conduct a 20minute PD session on some aspect of ICT use in the classroom. After careful consideration I decided I would create a worksheet that would take my fellow staff through some of the simple, yet highly effective search strategies. I figured this is something all staff [...]

QR Code Orienteering

 
Today during lunch time I helped my students setup QR code readers on their mobile phones in preparation for an activity they will be completing in the coming weeks within my Outdoor Education class. In order to study the safety aspects and risk taking factors that need to be considered before completing outdoor activities, the students [...]

Simply Amazing Siftables

Today I stumbled across a TED talk that simply blew me away and made me instantly want what I was watching. The video was about little devices called ’siftables’. Siftables are “cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – [...]