iBooks

On February 13, 2012 By

Back in 2010 I wondered about the effects that ebooks and the Ipad would have on education. Today I think we are moving away from desktops and laptops and towards tablets and I can see tools like iBooks Author accelerating the movement towards digital books. Creative, intelligent, collaborative teachers need few things [...]

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Blogfolio mechanics is done. Need to look more at why?

On December 13, 2011 By

I have been looking a lot at how we could setup an Eportfolio using WordPress a short post on why.

In 2010 I had students create a portfolio using WordPress. Earlier this week I resurrected one of the blogs created by Justine so the grade seven team had an example of what a blog based [...]

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Getting Ready Part 2

On November 29, 2011 By

Thinking about creating a template blog that could be used to help create blog based portfolios at SSIS. Been waiting for a few things to work themselves out before starting on this again. I am thinking about a standard approach in creating the portfolio where artifacts, reflections etc. are created in posts. Pages used to link [...]

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Fork In the Path

On November 21, 2011 By

Still having some trouble understanding the GReader  and bundle approach to sharing blogs: more along the why side.

I read this tweet by @intrepidteacher

There is a danger in thinking that a model that works for you is the best one, or even the right one. Be wary #techevangelists

Although his tweet is about something [...]

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RSS to WordPress to Epub

On May 16, 2011 By

I was playing this weekend creating Epub documents from one our school blogs.

The key to this is using the plugin Anthologize.  Anthologise allows you to use blog posts to create, among other things, an Epub document made up of your blog posts. In addition,  the plugin allows you to [...]

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