Virtual reality! How Cool!

Virtual reality is an amazing technology that allows the user to get a full 360-degree view of whatever has been captured. This could be real life places or events or it could be programmed video games that allow you to access different parts of a new world. The educational value is immense.   The creativity …

Makeblock Neuron – do they have educational value?

Makeblock is an intriguing piece of technology that allows the user to link together pod like items and great a link that produces an outcome. For this tool it could foster creativity by allowing students to use their own coding skills and create links between all the different outputs. An example for how it could …

Bee-Bots – Introduction to Robotics in the Classroom

Bee-Bots are a unique and fun way to start students computational thinking skills. The robot can remember up to 40 different commands and allows the student to program it to go left, right, forwards, backwards. With these programming skills comes maths and distance learning as well. The Bee-Bots allow children to create and perform tasks …

Kodu vs GameSalad – Gaming for education

  Kodu is an interesting game creation system. I found as a novice very hard to navigate and to employ different codes to get the Kodu to move or to do actions. It was also very tedious process. If a child had an infinite amount of time (or the ability to pick things up quickly) …

Blockly – A way to learn coding

Computational thinking is not something that I would usually think that I could do. Even hearing the words computational thinking makes me curl up and say NOOOO! However using Blockly Maze was revolutionary for someone like me who struggles with even the idea of coding. https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze The simple step by step process and being able …

3D Printing in the Classroom

What an amazing invention. The idea that you can create something on the computer and within a couple of hours have the life size version of it. This design based thinking is the future of the classroom. Even thinking on the most basic level, to be able to get your kindergarten children to be design …

Sketchboard – A New Technology

Sketchboard is an interactive online program that allows the user to create an interactive presentation. It has pre populated images and tools that the user can draw from or if the user is feeling adventurous they can free draw. The user can share the board with others and people can edit it from google drive. …

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The Journey Begins

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