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Hi everyone, The best kept secret on campus at the moment is the new eTV web service. eTV is a site that collects and stores video and TV broadcasts made in New Zealand specifically for teachers and educators to watch and use. You can download the videos offline, watch them on your iPad, . . . → Read More: eTV-a great tool for video and TV in your curriculum
So much can be said on this topic and there are so many online resources that it boggles the mind. If you would like a one stop, reliable and useful site, to bookmark and use, then this is one I highly recommend. Claire Amos’ foundation is derived from sound research, practice and . . . → Read More: Digital Citizenship Guidelines for Teachers  Comments are closed  Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Computer, Copyright, Education, Ethics, Google, Google Drive, Research tools, Security, Security, Social Networking, Web, web 2.0 Many of the new and incoming students this year will get a live IT Orientation presentation during the new student orientation programmes. However, if you missed my talk or want to find out more about some of the great web links that were highlight, the link to my Google presentation is now available. And . . . → Read More: IT Orientation presentation for new students in 2013 The good folks behind the creation and development of Zotero have finally released their much anticipated standalone client. Previously, in order to use Zotero’s citation collection, reference management and cite-while-you-write functionality you had to use the Mozilla Firefox web browser exclusively. Finally, Zotero is no longer a Firefox-only service but now works with three . . . → Read More: Standalone Zotero 3.0 client released In this post we highlight a great little resource created by Google for teachers to use when discussing with students about the effective use of search engines. The webpage contains scaffolded lesson plans and slides to assist in this effort. Not surprisingly, as it a resource created by Google staff, it does focus specifically . . . → Read More: Search Engine Lessons and Resources for Teachers If you are interested in more information on using and installing Zotero, the free browser-based reference management system, there is now a podcast available on the following Edlinked page: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/IT podcasts. This screencast is ~40 minutes long and goes over some of the basics as well as tips for effective use. It finishes . . . → Read More: Introduction to using and installing Zotero podcast available In the next few weeks the University of Waikato will become a member of the eduroam (educational roaming) network. Eduroam enables staff and students from participating institutions to obtain secure Internet access when visiting other participating institutions around the globe. A useful introductory video (below) provides an excellent overview of this service. If you . . . → Read More: Waikato eduroam access available soon The makers of Zotero (Center for History and New Media) have just announced a major new initiative for Zotero – the free citation manager programme. Zotero Everywhere was announced on the 22nd of September and will expand its capability by making it a stand alone software program that will work with all the . . . → Read More: The Future of Zotero |
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