The Penrith Panthers have become the first NRL(National Rugby League) club to ban its players from using Twitter and Facebook. This action comes after the Australian Federal Police spoke to the club regarding privacy and security issues on the sites. Last week Jarryd Hayne, a star of the game, had …
Posted on July 19, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Learn by playing! Here is an App for young learners to help with their spelling and vocabulary building. Word Warp provides users with six letters that they can use to create words that are from 3 to six characters in length. What makes this App such an amazing learning tool …
Posted on June 30, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Hey Chalksters,
Thanks for another brilliant term!
It’s been a pleasure engaging with you face to face as well as in cyberspace through these blogs and newsletters.
Have an awesome break.
Let’s get charged and ready for term 3!
Cheers,
The Beyond Chalk team
Posted on June 30, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
By following the attached link you will be taken to an article in which Elizabeth K. Englander, a professor of psychology and and the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State College, answers questions about cyberbullying. Below is part of the conversation:
“However, it’s important to …
Posted on June 30, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Tales2Go is a subscription-based App that allows it users access to 1000s of stories read aloud. The subscription-based model means you stream the book to your device instead of downloading the data. The books have text as well as audio and some even have songs! It is easy to search …
Posted on June 18, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Wow! Ok. So. I am a bit excited about this one. I read a site called Langwitches Blog which is a blog about technology in education. Recently I came across a really cool project that the blog is running. The project is called around the world with 80 schools. Basically …
Posted on June 17, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
This week, one of our team members found this amazing story about a new iPhone app that’s helping sufferers of severe autism interact with those around them. The “Grace App,” named and designed for the 10 year old daughter of its developer, is a digital version of the Picture Exchange …
Posted on June 16, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Surfing YouTube the other day, I found this amazing clip which serves to explain the slightly deeper ramifications of web 2.0. The movie looks, at where it came from and where it’s going.
This stuff should send shivers down spines.
But first, some background. Web 2.0 is just a term used to …
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
The day the iPad was released in Australia I was watching the news. The story on the release featured long lines of people queuing up and so on. The second half of the story featured the Premier of my State, John Brumby, in a school sitting down with children using …
Posted on June 9, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Moviemaking in the classroom is fun, engaging and incorporates many aspects of the curriculum.
But what do we do with the movies once they are made? Sure they can be posted on a private webpage or even on a public one such as YouTube but if you want to give your …
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
The information we teach has changed. Now of course what I mean by this is not that the date of Anzac Day has changed or the equation to determine area, no. Information has changed as far as the way it is stored and accessed. While there is still ?hard? content …
Posted on May 28, 2010 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Todays the day! The official launch of the iPad in Australia. Weve been reviewing apps, chatting to experts, reading articles, watching clips blogging and just generally getting very excited for this moment for the last few months. Hopefully weve helped show you just some possibilities of what this new technology …