Posted in Regular on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Earlier this week we had a tutorial on podcasting and the use of the software package “Garage Band”. I have had a Mac for a couple of years but never felt the need to even look at what that particular package was!
I had had some fun with it so I went home and gave my [...]
Posted in Reactionary on Aug 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Jane’s article “But why can’t I play on the computer all day? ..” was very relevant to me as I have a 9 year old son who’s every waking moment is spent wanting to play on the playstation.
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But then I think about my own childhood and [...]
Posted in Regular on Aug 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
I have just been looking at some research on technology used by young people around the world and I couldn’t help thinking that new technology is a fantastic thing – if you can afford it!
This research by Yahoo stated that 88% of teenagers in Australia owned their own PC, 92% had their own mobile [...]
Posted in Regular on Aug 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here is a great tip from a clip I have just seen on Teacher Tube
“Class you have 10 minutes to receive a text message from anyone outside of this school .. telling you what they had for breakfast!”
Once they have received the texts you can put the data into a table, graph [...]
