21st Century Educator

Well I am not going to say much about this….. But basically, I have stopped doing what I was for the past 13months. For reasons I will not be expanding on, I will be moving back toward the school/classroom environment. I am in the midst now of working out where exactly that will be and will be looking for something perminant very soon. I plan to make the most of this situation and look forward to having some more time and freedom to post here more often. Anyone want to give me a job?

For now I thought I would share this video…. This is a true blast from the past…. The Commodore64 commercial from 1984. As soon as I heard the jingle I had flashbacks to my childhood!!

This sums up why working with kids is never dull!!!

Catching up on some podcasts I subscribe to and came accross a video from the gurus at Macbreak that demo’s a great little app built into OSX that I think all educators should know about… Maybe you have heard of it but I am sure there will be a few that haven’t….

Summarize is a app that basically summarizes a entire txt document or website!! You have to see it to believe it…. Could be very useful when teaching students to pull out the important information in an article. The video tute for the app is below… Or you can download the full res version here

Was just going to point you to the high res download but thought I may be able to find it on youtube… And boom it was there!!

An update from the last post from Wes Fryer’s blog….  This is a podcast from the session with Gary Stager  Certainly worth a listen to   I really enjoy Gary’s presentations

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Wes Fryer has posted some great notes and links to a presentation from Gary Stager on why students should learn to program!!  I had the fortunate pleassure to hear Gary speak last year here in Aus.  He is a great presenter and is one of those guys who tells it how it is!!  Check out Wes’s post

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