Education is now the number one economic priority
in today's global economy.
Oct
24
Drupal Presentation, CSTA NSW, 26/10/2009
Submitted by Ross Parker (ICHK) on Sat, 24/10/2009 - 04:13
This page provides support for those who attended the NSW CSTA presentation I ran with Peter Stidston, Chris Dam and Nirvan Gelda on the 26th of October, 2009.
Please use the comment facility below to ask any questions, or leave feedback. It would be very useful to me if you could fill out the feedback form.
Materials
Sep
29
Creating A Digital Hub: Website Creation for Teachers
Submitted by Ross Parker (ICHK) on Tue, 29/09/2009 - 10:46
Recently I have been fielding questions from pre-service teachers regarding setting up their own website to support teaching and learning. I usually point people to a wiki (www.wikispaces.com) or blog (www.onsugar.com) service as a starting point, and show them how to integrate content from other sites and services. The video below aims to answer such questions in a thorough, easy-to-follow manner, so that teachers can help themselves.
Sep
23
Sha Tin College ICT Certification For Teachers
Submitted by Ross Parker (ICHK) on Wed, 23/09/2009 - 16:32
As part of a previous position I held at the Sha Tin College (part of the English School's Foundation in Hong Kong) I developed and delivered a year-long CPD course to help teachers develop their ICT skills. The aim was to produce a challenging course that forced teachers to confront ICT in numerous ways, thus building confidence and competence. As it was all created under a Creative Commons license, it is available for anyone to use!
Sep
23
Graphics: Isolating An Image From Its Background
Submitted by Ross Parker (ICHK) on Wed, 23/09/2009 - 15:57
As part of a UWS "Interactive PowerPoint for Teaching" workshop I helped out at today, I was asked by quite a few people how to remove the background from a picture so that it could be integrated into a presentation more cleanly. I showed a few people some relatively simple tricks using free, open source software called Gimp. In order to make this information more widely available, I have put together a short guide on how this can be done.
Aug
6
UWS ICT & Education Workshop, 08/08/2009
Submitted by Ross Parker (ICHK) on Thu, 06/08/2009 - 08:36
This page refers to a CPD workshop I ran at the "Beginner's Teachers Forum" at the University of Western Sydney School of Education.
Information for participants: through this workshop I hope to balance hands-on exercises, suggestions, theory and values, with the aim of helping you to better incorporate ICT into your classroom practice. Listed below you will find all of the resources that we will use in this session.
Feel free to leave feedback or questions in the comments section below,
