Tag Archives: edtech

Cancel or Allow?

Posted on April 8, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I saw this for the first time over the weekend (I don’t watch much TV). I had two thoughts. 1 – Didn’t Apple start the whole “cancel or allow” thing? OS X has always required major changes in the OS … Continue reading →

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PowerPoint As Notes

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

After yesterday’s post about PowerPoint, my wife and I have had a lengthy discussion about using PowerPoint in class. She teaches education classes at Ohio State so we are always stealing each other’s material. She is going to use my … Continue reading →

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PowerPoint or No PowerPoint

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

You may have seen this post in Slashdot a couple of days ago. It points to an article talking about the research of Australian educator, John Sweller. Sweller developed the “cognitive load theory” which explains how our brains handle new … Continue reading →

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Scratch

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

If you are looking for a way to introduce programming to an elementary class, take a look at Scratch from MIT. Scratch reminds me of Squeak, but with a Lego-like feel. You use pre-made building blocks to create programs. Your … Continue reading →

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Learn Out Loud

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Learnoutloud.com is a nice source for audio and video with many topics that deal with education. There is a mix of free and pay resources. Most are professionally produced. I did a search for “Lessig” and found 125 links to … Continue reading →

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