Posts Tagged with "Education"

Winners in the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Winners in the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2009

As usual I was reading planet TALO aka superuser network and read the post “Top Tools for Learning 2009” by Kerrie Smith. It’s interesting to see that “educators” on the web are doing most of their computing using “Linux” and an…

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MobilizeThis09

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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MobilizeThis09

Mobilize This09 being held on Friday the 30th of October, brings together those pursuing the active use of mobile technologies and associated digital literacy in their daily lives, teaching and work related duties. The event will be held at Charles Darwin…

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Making sculpted chair for secondlife part 2

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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Following on from part 1, in this episode we finish modeling our chair, then bake the sculptmap, texture and preview them in opensim. Watch it below or watch it on youtube. Visit Archive.org and download the Ogg video or Avi. Download Making sculpted…

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Teachers Without Borders on Secondlife

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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I wandered around Teachers Without Borders space on Secondlife and recorded a video of it that you can watch below or watch on youtube. You can also download it from internet archive. Read more about Teachers Without Borders. I hope Konrad Glogowski doesn’t mind…

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GCompris, the best suite of free educational software for children

Friday, May 1, 2009

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GCompris is amazing, its fun and kids love it. Over the years I’ve distributed a lot of educational freedom respecting software and GCompris is popular. Lets look at some info from the GCompris Wikipedia article: It is available for Linux, Mac OS…

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The Open University?

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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The UK’s Open Source Consortium has accused the Open University of breaching its founding principles.  The Open University came about in the 1960’s as a move towards making university education available to all regardless of income or gender. Given the sort of…

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Online Blender 3D Design Course

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Neil Hirsig has developed an online course to offer students an introduction to the world of computer generated 3-D modeling and animation. As an introductory course, it provides a basic understanding of the skills and techniques employed by 3-D designers in…

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MobilizeThis 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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MobilizeThis 2008 is being held next week, from the 22nd-24th Oct. It is a yearly event which provides a snapshot of a cross-sectorial range of contributions to discussion involving the practical and constructive use of ICT’s in the education and related industries. This year…

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