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Teaching Year 10 with Laptops

Sunday, 07 February 2010
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In 2009, Year 9 got their DER netbooks and now they are in Year 10. This year’s Year 9 does not have their netbooks yet, and so this gives teachers a little time to get their heads around the inclusion of netbooks into the classroom. This year, I’m teaching a 5.2 pathway Year 10 class (and a Year 9 5.2 class).

Make a roll book

Thursday, 07 January 2010
| Posted in • AdminHow toSoftwareExcel

Teacher’s all have their own way of keeping track of student attendance, and other aspects that are recorded in class. Here’s mine, it might give you some ideas.

Drawing in Excel

Monday, 30 November 2009
| Posted in • Lesson IdeaNumber PlaneSoftwareExcelTechnologyDigital Education RevolutionLaptops 4 LearningWebsite

A lesson for Year 9 students with DER laptops, or anyone really.

Computer Aided Homework

Sunday, 18 October 2009
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A Digital Education Revolution (DER) laptop in the hands of all Year 9 students changes everything… or does it?

End of term activities 5 - Patterns

Thursday, 01 October 2009
| Posted in • ActivityDesignLesson IdeaEnd of TermPrintableTemplateSoftwareWebsite

Tomorrow is the last day of term… hurray! Here’s another end of term activity for use with your maths class.

Making a dice

Sunday, 27 September 2009
| Posted in • How toSoftwareExcel

In my IST class, we’re studying Modeling and Simulation, and started to make a model of a dice using Excel.

Thinking about it, the technique involved in making this would also be of interest to Maths teachers.

Brisbane Broncos Number Plane Logo

Sunday, 20 September 2009
| Posted in • ActivityDesignLesson IdeaNumber PlanePrintableWorksheetSoftwareGeoGebraTechnologyDigital Education RevolutionLaptops 4 Learning

Last year, I posted the Melbourne Storm Number Plane Logo – and today, exactly one year later, purely by coincidence, I’ve made a Brisbane Broncos Number Place activity.

World’s Fastest Clapper

Saturday, 01 August 2009
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Here’s a quirky little activity that uses the DER laptops.

Using GeoGebra

Wednesday, 22 July 2009
| Posted in • ReflectionSoftwareGeoGebraTechnologyDigital Education RevolutionLaptops 4 LearningTools

This article is not a “how-to” but rather some thinking about using GeoGebra (a discussion starter maybe).

Curriculum Support for DER

Monday, 20 July 2009
| Posted in • ResourceSoftwareExcelGeoGebraGoogle EarthGoogle SketchupTechnologyDigital Education RevolutionLaptops 4 LearningWebsite

Screenshot of Curriculum Support website

For NSW DET teachers, the Curriculum Support web-site has been updated with resources for the DER, i.e. the laptops being rolled out to Year 9 students.

Time to learn

Sunday, 05 July 2009
| Posted in • ComputingSoftwareGeoGebraTechnologyDigital Education RevolutionLaptops 4 Learning

Teacher’s throughout NSW DET schools are starting to receive their DER netbooks.

Google SketchUp

Thursday, 02 July 2009
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Google Sketchup is one of the applications bundled on the DER netbooks being rolled out into NSW Public High Schools in Term 3. But as it’s free, you can download it now for Windows XP/Vista & Mac OS X.

Dice

Friday, 05 June 2009
| Posted in • GameLesson IdeaProbabilitySoftwareExcelTechnologyIWBProjector Resource

I wanted to play a multiplication bingo type game with a class the other day, so I grabbed two 10 sided dice (apparently you don’t need to call a single dice a “die” anymore) out of the cupboard. Then I thought… hey I have a projector and a laptop.

L4L Software Specs

Thursday, 04 June 2009
| Posted in • SoftwareTechnologyDigital Education RevolutionLaptops 4 Learning

The NSW DET will shortly equip Year 9 students with a Lenovo S10e netbook as part of a program called “Laptops for Learning” (L4L). To me, if we are going to do this – then it’s time to include some good software on these machines and help out schools who cannot afford some of the more exciting applications.

Drawing Mathematically

Saturday, 16 May 2009
| Posted in • ResourceSoftwareWord

Are you drawing mathematical diagrams in Microsoft Word? You might even be achieving success doing this; once you’ve worked out how to wrangle Microsoft apps to do what you want, they can be powerful. But, for drawing mathematical diagrams there are better options.

FX Draw by Efofex is the application for drawing static diagrams for inclusion in worksheets, assessment tasks etc. The one down-side of this software is that there is no Mac version. (The rest of the Efofex MathPack is worth the money as well)