Welcome to the Triple A Learning blog for Web 2.0 in the IB classroom. The most recent blog posts are listed below and you can access the blog archive by following the appropriate link in the panel on the left.
Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, and iPad are the frontrunners for book readers at the moment. As much as we all love the “feel” of a book, we are heading in another direction – at least part of the time. We’re moving towards using a reader and scholastically this makes sense. This little video spells it out nicely.
We’re not quite there yet, but we will be very soon. . .
We spend so much of our time online. The lines between work and play are being redefined and we need to take a little break every now and again to laugh. Hope this helps you to relax while you wind down from grades and the flurry of activity that the end of term brings.
Here at Triple A Learning, we’ve always supported the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) cause. With a mission to “empower the world’s poorest children through education“, who could fail to be moved by its ideals.
Symbaloo allows your homepage to have visual “tabs” (visual links) to all of your most frequently access sites. Simply go to http://www.symbaloo.com to get started. The quick tour demonstrates how easy it is to make your personalized Symbaloo page your homepage in your browser.
Each page is called a ‘webmix’ and the icons with links on the webpage are called ‘tabs’.
By now you’ve most likely read (or at least heard of) the “2011 Horizon Report,” which predicts that games-based learning will be mainstream in schools as soon as 2013. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t wait any longer. Get your free copy from the New Media Consortium website: http://www.nmc.org/publications/2011-horizon-report.
You probably already know WHY you want to get your school into 3D virtual worlds, but you just haven’t known HOW…but that’s all about to change. Courtesy of Changchun American International School, you can now have a free copy of “OpenSimulator: School Quick Start Guide.” Written specifically for teachers, this e-book includes introductory information, step-by-step setup directions and even lesson plans you can adapt. Second Life is covered too, since it’s now open to kids 16 years old and up! The e-book covers how to both choose an OpenSimulator host company and create a FREE OpenSimulator client/server installation, so your school can take the best path…the best path INWORLD, that is!
In May, Triple A Learning sent out an invitation to all the Diploma schools and MYP schools on its database. The invite was to take part in our annual survey on The Use of Information Technology in Teaching and Learning. As last year, we used a really neat Web 2.0 application called Survey Monkey to present, collect and analyze the data . We also promised to publish our findings in two reports – one for the DP schools’ responses and the other for the MYP schools’ responses.
If you’d like to read our findings, the two reports are accessible by clicking the links below.
IT Survey in Diploma Programme schools and IT Survey in MYP schools
Here at Triple A Learning we are always seeking new ways to put our mission statement into practice. As an organisation we are focused on the development of communities to support the delivery of the IB programme and its ethos and philosophy. Our blogs follow in the footsteps of our online workshops and materials by providing a voice for experienced IB practitioners who invite IB teachers to comment, contribute and collaborate by interacting with IB subject-related content.
Why blogs?
One of my favourite “web 2.0″ tools over the last couple of years has been the latest version of Realplayer. It is free, it can handle most media streams but for me more importantly it can often down load those streams directly to your desktop for converting into a more useable file type. As a mac user that is any one of the number of quicktime formats, but I think on a windows system then anything that windows mediocre player will handle. It manages this with an add in programme called real downloader (doh) and real converter.
Great for embedding in presentations if your band width is limited in school or your IT department have permissions tied down like a goose at yule tide.
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