Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is very popular among educators, and I have modelled a basic digital literacy needs, skills, tasks and tools for young primary students on a similar look to show the hierarchy of competencies students should accumulate in order to take on learning in an education technology centric learning environment. It is about … Read more
Truth be known I’m including these two videos because I’m afraid that I’ll forget the links. The first video provides a really easy to understand and fun to watch masterclass on what generative AI is all about. The second video is a TED talk by one of the founders of duolingo describing how their company … Read more
I love browsing through a Britannica article and then being prompted to complete a pop quiz. Here is one I wish to share with you now. Pop Quiz: 18 Things to Know About Ancient Egypt | Britannica Take it, enjoy and relish the fact that a human probably created the quiz. In Microsoft Forms you … Read more
Whenever you record a meeting in Microsoft teams it is actually being saved as a Microsoft stream video. With the recent release of the updated version of MS Stream you now have some powerful editing tools at your fingertips. This includes the ability to trim the ends of your video and cut out sections within … Read more
I have just completed the May challenge. Here was the challenge… Here was my effort… If you click the link below, it will take you to a remixable version of my effort. https://new.express.adobe.com/published/urn:aaid:sc:AP:c78eba6a-deba-473b-9e79-826124336f56?promoid=Y69SGM5H&mv=other …and here is a video about the little add on to the original challenge. All of this software is free for our … Read more
Your images are scattered everywhere on hard disks. This post, one of a few will share my experience with a personal digital library of hundreds of thousands of photographs and images. This library continues to grow as I add images from our travels, local flying around Darwin and also family. Many people would be in … Read more
This won’t mean much to someone unless they are trying to dig a file out of a MIG archive. I found a free tool that I used to open a mig archive and extract file that were backed up as part of a reimaging of my dell machine. The interface is like a powershell interface, … Read more
Wouldn’t it be great to know how to draw? The romance of drawing really appeals to me, but. It’s something that I’ve never been good at. I’ve had a chance to try out some of the free tools that are available from Adobe with a little bit of guidance from friends and also from online … Read more
Noisy classroom, poor-quality laptop? Trying to get the students to create multimedia stories on their school laptops or iPads in the classroom or library? Been there and done that. Adobe podcast is an online solution you can use to not only record a podcast but also get your students (and you) to learn the best … Read more
