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Dr Jack Bacon

Here’s the blurb on Dr Jack who was the opening Keynote for the 2011 ULearn conference in Rotorua: Jack is one of the most requested speakers in the world for topics concerning technology and the factors that shape human society. … Continue reading

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Shanghai Learning Summit

What better way to spend a Saturday morning that to head along to CCIS and go to some workshops – this is the Shanghai Learning Summit. A heap of different options were on offer – the ones I attended I’ve … Continue reading

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Animate Your Students

Presented by Laura Brown from CCIS. Demo’d some example of student’s work. SAM animation is the app to use. It has a heap of examples of student work on the site. icreatetoeducate website also has examples of student work. We … Continue reading

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Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha

This workshop was presented by Samuel Chen. Demo of WolframAlpha website – data is already curated from the Wolfram database. There is a useful intro video on the website and has a mobile app (although you can access the website … Continue reading

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WordPress workshop

Hosted by Michael Boll, this workshop explored uses and development of a WordPress site. Learned how to manipulate themes and was able to upload a new header image!  There is also a .css editor to make changes to font styles … Continue reading

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