Of course it can! But that problem is certainly not unique to delicious or the web or … anything! Regular readers of the Beyond Chalk blog will be aware of my (and recently Callie’s) enthusiasm for delicious, the Social Bookmarking tool.
Here’s a post I read this morning from the …

When studying books and novels, it often helps student comprehension if they have some sort of visual image of the novels setting. As adults, we will often draw on our experience to create this image, however I found that sometimes students just can’t get into a book, because they can’t …

I’ve recently had the pleasure of corresponding with teacher, entrepreneur and blogger, Vicki A. Davis (aka: Cool Cat Teacher) from the U.S. Vicki is co-author of the Flat Classroom Project, Digiteen Project and Horizon Project. Needless to say she’s been very pro-active in exploring future possibilities in education.
I asked her …

A ‘Blog’ is a type of website that is typically:

easily updated and changes with regular posts

organized in reverse chronological order

inclusive of text, images, video, slides, google maps and widgets and much much more

something you can subscribe to using RSS 

What do you get when you mash up Garageband, a group of excited students and some creative time? Well you’ll just have to keep reading to find out. Without a shadow of a doubt, the coolest thing that I have ever seen any students do with a Mac, the built …

Yes, ‘tagging’ is still an annoying piece of graffiti, but when it comes to Social Bookmarking, ‘tagging’ now has a far more useful application, in helping us organise, categorise, search, share and relocate web resources. Read about social bookmarking to find out more….

This week we’re proud to announce our guest article, written by none other than Mr Greg Whitby.
Someone once wisely observed that the secret of education is to be found in respecting the student.
In all our necessary discussions of accountabilities and organisational arrangements, it is important to stop every now and …

Over the Jump you will find the full interview with Colin Gould who gives his candid thoughts as to how schools could spend their funding and recollects Apple IIe’s!

Ok, so you know about YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, Blogger and you are feeling pretty happy with yourself. You feel as though you are keeping abreast with all the latest in Web 2.0 applications. Then perhaps, like me, you probably need a reality check. Visit www.go2web20.net to see …

Beyond Chalk will be presenting three sessions at the upcoming VITTA conference. There are more than 250 speakers over the three days, which run from Monday 24th of November to Wednesday 26th of November. Click here for the conference program and registration details. As well as the regular program, VITTA have …

If a student came to you and said they were being harassed by another student at school on MSN, a popular instant messaging program that many of our students use to keep in touch outside of school hours, what do you advise them?
a) to block the student and delete the offensive messages
b) …

I’ve recently become a fan of Sir Ken Robinson. Here’s a link to a video I’ve just been listening to. There are some pretty radical ideas proposed, but they certainly make sense to me. View the video here.