Digilearn's Blog

Team Wiki!

digilearn — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:32:08 +0000

Aimed at the faculty head or team leader. Wikis give whole departments and faculties the power to develop dynamic units of work as a collective. Sick of reinventing the wheel? Setup an effective and collaborative resource hub for your faculty. Using free, accessible and incredibly easy to use software participate in a half day workshop which goes way beyond the basics of mere software training. Taught to teachers by teachers this hands on workshop will provide you with everything you need to know about wonderful wikis and what’s more how to really use them to their full potential for teacher collaboration and classroom use.
Want to know more about our workshops?

Mindmapping in the Cloud

digilearn — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:34:21 +0000

Freemind Free Mindmapping software

digilearn — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:13:30 +0000

Vodpod videos no longer available.

more about "Introduction to FreeMind", posted with vodpod

Want to become a Glogster? Make interactive multimedia posters with your classes

digilearn — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:49:26 +0000

Working with Wikis

digilearn — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:35:42 +0000

There are a number of advantages for working with wikis within the classroom

-Allows for collaboration between faculty members and students

-Students can edit and improve upon peer’s work.

-Groups of students can develop joint projects and a list of the edits by individuals is able to be tracked.

RSS feeds in education

digilearn — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:12:00 +0000

Using Google Reader With Firefox

A few ideas of how blogs can be used in the classroom..

digilearn — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:10:00 +0000

-Blogs can be used as a process diary for major projects (visual arts).
-All students in the class can be members of the blog and contribute, building social connections and for group activities
-Blogs can be created as a platform for teachers/faculties to share resources. -Teachers can setup web quests using the blog format.
-Any school news, daily bulletins, sports carnival live updates
-Blog pages can be limited to a select group, the teacher can control access and monitor content.
-Students and teachers can create multimedia presentations and content using blogs.
-Staff announcements and news

What can Blogs be used for with your students?

digilearn — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:57:00 +0000

There are a range of uses for blogs within the classroom.

Setting up a blog is easy using blogger!

digilearn — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:47:00 +0000

This page contains useful information about blogs in education. It was setup as an example to see how easy it is to get blogging!

Creating a Blog with Blogger