THe Maine Department of Education has released a series of very useful Studywiz tutorials which can be viewed, downloaded and subscribed to, from iTunes. Here’s the link.
The videos cover the Studywiz learning environment interface.
It is also worth taking the time to check out some of the other podcasts that are published by the DOE - you’ll find some fantastic gems in there.
Those great folk from Maine ran an online conference last week, Pictures, Sounds, Numbers, Words. All sessions have been recorded and are freely available here: http://mltiolc.wordpress.com/workshop-schedule/.
Ex-Governor Angus King presented the keynote on the first day, and during his presentation he talks about many of the themes of the flat digital World and the implications for education. One of the points he focusses on is the need for professional development when supporting educators, which is something we wholeheartedly agree with at Etech.
Last year I had the chance to briefly meet with Governor King and I was interested to learn that the total cost of the initial MLTI initiative was around 0.5% of the total Maine education budget. Interesting thought for those who might believe that 1-1 programmes are prohibitively expensive.
Following on from Karen’s post regarding Prezi, Dr. Ruben Puentedura presents a workshop on some of the theory behind Prezi, and also, how to get started with it.
