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PD – staff using iPods
Unboxing iPod Touch by FHKE CC BY SA Recently I was one of 20 presenters at our annual school Speedgeeking session. I decided to focus on iPods/iDevices and to introduce my audience to Coach’s Eye/Dropbox and Reflector. I had 7 minutes to discuss these with my audience (between 4-7 people) and repeated the experience 7 times to new people. I started off with the usual speel, who I am; what I teach; what I am trialing and trying to do in PE and then launched into the apps and iDevices. But after the second round of 7 minutes, I had to take a step back. I was finding that in…
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Speedgeeking at VTC2013
T as in Teaching Tech by Kalexanderson CC BY NC SA Speedgeeking Speedgeeking takes the idea of speed dating and blends it neatly with an Educational/Tech setting. The idea here is that in a large space, 7 presenters share their session 7 times (with a 20 second break between each) for 7 minutes. After each 7 minutes, the audience moves one space over to the new presenter. The audience then comes out with 7 new things that they can either learn more about or follow up on without having to sit through a whole hour on something that they weren’t really interested in. If you repeat this experience twice…
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VTC2013 at SSIS
Vietnam Tech Conference (#VTC2013) Presenting by Alice Bartlett CC BY NC The first annual Vietnam Tech Conference (VTC2013) kicked off on Saturday 3rd March at Saigon South Int’l School (SSIS). There are a host of great schools here with the idea that we can learn from each other. The weekend schedule was pretty loose with workshops/presentations running on the Saturday and then some unconference work for Sunday including Speedgeeking and an Unconference session based on interest from the participants and organisers. Schedule and blog of the Conference. Here are some notes from the sessions that I was lucky enough to participate in: Open Source Software by Urko Masse (SSIS) There…