doing more with diigo

Diigo is a great way to keep track of all of your bookmarks in the cloud so that they can be readily pulled up on any device connected to the Internet. Yes, and…  there’s a whole lot more that it can do. Diigo works best when it’s tools are integrated right in to your browser. …

Making Learning Visible – Mobile Video in PE

How do you know what you look like when performing a physical skill? This is a question I ask myself again and again on the golf course when the round ends up going south.  Was it my elbow, my grip, am I shifting my feet, not keeping my head down? For anybody who’s watched an…

Learning with Laptops and Lanschool

Laptops in the hands of our student present an enormous array of opportunities for learning. They also present several significant challenges that we must work to overcome, especially for those of us who are relatively new to a one-to-one learning environment. There are several things that a teacher can do to maximize the potential for…

Mahara – Sharing a Journal

By default, any content students create in Mahara, including their journals, is private to them.  This is a feature built in to the platform that is actually reinforcing the desired model of having students make considered choices of what they publish and share.The idea is that students select the artifacts that best represent their learning…

Teamwork makes blogging better.

Blogging is a great way to communicate about the learning going on in your classroom.  The challenge however for new bloggers to overcome is the idea of how this medium is different than the “way we’ve always done it.” One way that blogging is different than emailing or posting a newsletter is that these forms…

Changing Your Password

Please see the screencast below to show how to change your password via the school website www.uwcsea.edu.sg

Taking attendance for a a class that’s not on your timetable.

Occasionally, teachers will be asked to cover for colleagues who can’t themselves be there. In these cases, you need to be able to mark attendance for a class that’s not on your timetable.  Here’s how (thanks to Hemantha Dissanayake for the screen shots). How to take attandance for another teacher from United World College of…

Linking to other sites from your Studywiz course page.

This tutorial shows you how you can use your Studywiz course page to link to other sites like a blog, or Google site.  The suggested process has you editing the course’s Information page.  You can put different types of information here like a course overview simply by pasting from an existing document or writing with…