Unconference 1 – Apple classroom: using the iPad

Posted on September 9, 2010 by corney

The iPad has perked my interest since in was released.  But I wondered how useful would it be in a classroom setting?  A demo from Apple soon had some answers. The demo involved using iBooks to access multimedia resources.

Create an ePub document

Create interactive document in Pages (drag links from Safari, drag in Podcasts from Media browser)
Export as ePub document (untick ‘show first page as cover’)
Drag this file into iTunes

Can you upload this ePub file to a website for students to download into their own iTunes Books?
Can you create a free iTunes account to distribute content?

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Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn by Jamie McKenzie

Posted on August 5, 2010 by corney

I’ve been following the work on Jamie McKenzie for some time know and was fortunate enough to go to one of his workshops in Hong Kong.

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“Reach” for a PLN

Posted on June 18, 2010 by corney

So what’s all this PLN stuff all about? I at least knew that it stood for ‘personal learning network’ but it wasn’t until I read ‘Reach’ by Jeff Utecht that I really understood what it meant.

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The Questionable classroom – school inset

Posted on June 2, 2010 by corney

In preparation for this short workshop, I asked participants to check out a short TED video by Adora Svitak.  The thing that stuck with me was the idea of viewing ‘childish’ thinking as more of a positive than is oft conceived negative connotations.

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Jamie McKenzie in Hong Kong

Posted on April 26, 2010 by corney

After much to-ing and fro-ing I managed to secure a place at a two day workshop with Jamie hosted by South Island School. Titled “Combining Rigorous Inquiry with  Smart Use of New Technologies”, the content covered briefly a range of his work to date.

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