An educational technology blogger with a passion for photography and all things Apple. The aim of this blog is to tie together Creativity, Technology and Education. As well as traditional desk based ICT DigMo! hopes to address the growing trends in mobile education.
I have been thinking over the last few weeks about school based pupil email provision. I have to confess we have been considering investing in an advanced Google Apps for education (paying so we can apply a policy) system for pupils after a very successful model with staff. When providing for pupils a school really can not provide any sort of ICT system without some sort of save guarding filtering or quarantine policy and this is what Google charge for.
A number of teachers have asked how we manage the growing amount of video based teaching resources that are being produced. From screencasts to Moving Image Arts coursework, from video podcasts to clips edited from our EyeTV system we end up juggling a large amount of video files which creates both storage and bandwidth issues for schools.
I would be interested in hearing your opinion on teachers using social networking in particular when school life and out of school life overlap. Should there be a school policy for social network usage by teachers ? I have been pondering with other social network education users this very idea, one suggestion is a policy along the lines of :
Firstly let me explain that this is a post documenting an exploration in the benefits of ICT, creativity and communication in learning. In many ways it is a post asking for opinions on an idea rather than presenting a definitive view.
There is nothing more motivating (and exciting) as digital creativity in the classroom. I personally think you would be hard pushed to find a teacher who doesn’t love offering their pupils digital creativity opportunities yet we all face the age old problem of having little TIME to learn new technologies and even less time to freely experiment in class.
Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People and Coca-Cola HBC Northern Ireland are celebrating the continuation of their partnership for the next three years. The award-winning partners have been working together since 2004, highlighting the benefits of collaboration between business and the arts.
Anyone who uses the Flickr photo sharing website will already be aware that the iPhone is one of the most popular cameras used in the 3000 photos uploaded each and every second. Well using Flickr on your iPhone has just become even easier in the form of a dedicated (official) flickr app.
Live TV on the iPhone is now even more enjoyable. The iPhone app that allows you to stream Live TV to the iPhone now displays viewer ratings, the remaining duration of currently running TV shows and also adds sorting features. equinux also released The Tube 2.9.4, the innovative TV solution for Mac users, that together with Live TV 1.1 enables Live TV on the iPhone.
