Let them Discover
Sound sound sound! That’s what I tell my students when making a video. Get that right and the you can get away with ok visuals. However, I have found plenty of videos where the sound isn’t good, but the learning was exceptional. This is particularly true with screencasts. A good screencast can be watched without any sound, as it can be followed visually with the presenter. As an Edtech Specialist in my school, one of my aims is to help facilitate the learning. I believe that
Flip the Pen in Learning
It was about a year ago when I came up with this idea of "Flipping the Pen". Having worked with so many teachers and seeing how exercise books and paper play a major part of initial projects or lessons, I asked myself why is this still happening in a 21st Century learning environment? Why are we as teachers using technology as a secondary follow up tool? With the tools teachers and students have at their disposal, surely the pen should now be the secondary tool? Now before t
