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Collaborative Brainstorming with EtherPad and Wordle

Posted on May 22, 2012 by admin

Real-time Collaborative Brainstorming – What Fun! What Good Learning! When students have access to computers or personal devices (Netbooks or iPad3+) you can easily create a real-time collaborative writing page that will also generate a work cloud to show the … Continue reading →

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Look to Learns (L2Ls) for K-12

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

Below are a few Look to Learn activities that might suit the students / courses identified below.  You do not have to limit yourself to those at your Grade Level / KLA, but these groupings are meant to save you … Continue reading →

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ASUS EeePad Transformer Set-up

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin

Unboxing & Initial Set-Up The Following Steps are Used for the Initial Set-up of an ASUS EeePad Transformer Unpack units and remove all stickers / protective plastic Clip Screen into the keyboard (securely) Plug-in to power source Start (button on … Continue reading →

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Look to Learn – SOLE

Posted on March 5, 2012 by admin

Sugata Mitra, a professor at Newcastle University and MIT, began his “Hole in a Wall” experiments many years ago.  This clip shows the computers placed as “holes in the wall” where children accessed them without any supervision or instruction and … Continue reading →

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The uses for Homework?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

Recently at an Academic and Area Heads meeting the question was raised as to why we ask students to complete homework.  Many ideas were offered.  As a way to capture these great ideas for further discussion, a “Stixyboard” was set … Continue reading →

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Modifying Your OxleyLearning Menus

Posted on February 20, 2012 by admin

Here’s a good video describing how to modify the menu structure of your blog on OxleyLearning.  Administrators of Faculty blogs has access to make these changes. There’s also an in-depth guide on Menus from the WordPress site.

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Adding Youtu.be Videos – 2012 Update

Posted on February 17, 2012 by admin

Youtube has begun using a strange configuration of its domain that doesn’t work when you embed a Youtube video into a post on your OxleyLearning site. The workaround is very easy and shown below. Embedding http://youtu.be Videos 1. As usual, find … Continue reading →

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Diigo

Posted on February 3, 2012 by admin

Diigo is a great tool for many uses.  You will discover how you find it most useful, but here are a few main ways: Bookmark Web sites Annotate Web pages Join in annotated discussions Share Links with a Group Join … Continue reading →

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Accessing Atlas for the First Time

Posted on January 24, 2012 by admin

Oxley College uses a software program as a live database of its curriculum.  It goes by the name “Atlas Rubicon.” As a new member of staff you are provided with a log-on. You can get to Atlas by either entering … Continue reading →

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Core Apps

Posted on November 11, 2011 by admin

The following were the core apps we installed on every iPad.  Staff have experimented with many others, but these found the most use across faculties. Diigo Web highlighter Dropbox ePrint Evernote NetVibes WordPress Google Mobile App OxleyLearning Web App button … Continue reading →

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