So it was now time to present what our group had worked on over the last few sessions:
The aim was to provide a student guide to different digital products. We’ll see if it is useful.
Some other resources:
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
I have had a go with using 2nd life in the classroom but with not much success. Hogs a lot of bandwidth and students have to install a client to run it. So I was interested to hear what Bill (3d Environment Project Examples | LearningWilds ) from NIS had to say. He uses a locally hosted application and shared some good ideas.
First, Melinda and Chris talked through some ideas about encouraging creativity:
Suggested resource:
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Amazon.com: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (9781594481710): Daniel H. Pink: Books
Jon has been a Tech Director at SCIS and is know a Head of School. He had a conversation about how best to convince administrators about the benefits of technology in the classroom. His advice – don’t justify by a direct link but one of a number of initiatives the have a positive influence on student learning.
Somer resources:
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization [Paperback]
Peter M. Senge
Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement [Paperback]
John Hattie 
LimeSurvey.org – THE Survey software – free and open source!
Activities:
10 questions about….. (a toothbrush – Where was it made? Why are the bristles white?
Thing in a jar: what is in there? What is the worst thing that could be in there? What would be the best? [ambiguous task]
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