Contents tagged with Education
Sharing Is Caring
Last Wednesday I finally launched TeachingResourceExchange.com, an Idea I had last july to make my life and the life of other education students just that little bit easier. Since the initial concept, it has grown into what is now a full content sharing platform, where teachers can submit any …
You only have to click once
Not every school is lucky enough to have the latest and greatest hardware and software. Nevertheless, when your infrastructure is just the slightest bit slow it becomes unstable in the wrong hands.
While this is a problem I can imagine popping up in an IT helpdesk job, seeing a student open 104 …
Stop wasting time with QR codes
For some unknown reason, over the last few weeks I have seen a bombardment of blogs, tweets and posts about using QR codes in education. As someone who likes to pretend they know a little bit about using technology in education, it causes me great angst.
First, lets explore the definition of QR, …
WordFiller 2 Launch
After a somewhat massive wait, WordFiller 2 is now available for download! Thanks to the help of many people (Elise Boyd, Brendan Forster mainly) WordFiller version 2 is now as ready as it will ever be.
The main feature of Version 2 being support for the Microsoft Kinect. However, and it …
Introducing a 20% time concept into education.
From my experience and general ability to tell the time, it becomes obvious when in a school to see exactly how much pressure teachers and students are under to burn through all of the required material. At University, we are forced to plan our lessons down to the very minute, which for obvious …