Author Archive for jrowing

Google Earth in the classroom

With all the excitement around google Earth and the updated Google maps service I thought I’d try and find a way to use it in education and an oppourtunity arose almost immediately…. …I tried out an activity today to raise the issuse of privacy and personal space and how google Earth etc impacts on this.  We started [...]

How to podcast homeworks…

1st draft instructions, let me know how you get on! Podcasting Homework Publish at Scribd or explore others: eLearning/Online Lea Education

Webcams in the classroom

Image via Wikipedia Recently I stumbled across a document projector on a dusty shelf in the prep-room and we’ve made strong friends quickly. The document projector is basicly a camera on the end of a boom, useful for projecting printed or written text from the desktop to the board, much as an old style OHP with [...]