Wednesday 28 November 2012

Facebook Privacy Settings

A nice step by step guide on Facebook security settings that I highly recommend reading through if you're on Facebook and work in the education sector:

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/e-safety/58849-esafety-resources-3.html#post816493

Direct link:

Facebook security settings guide

With much thanks to elsiegee40.

Monday 12 November 2012

Gaming in Education



and on a related theme:

Gamification in Education

As a gamer, and someone who works in an education environment, I've always had an interest in trying to merge the two. As such, the above two videos are of interest to me, along with this blog post:

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/07/do-most-educational-games-suck.html

I thought pulling out one or two websites with good gaming resources might help. (This is in addition to Kodu and Scratch).

Bigbrainz - Timez Attack 6.0



Golems



HoodaMath

FunBrain

Spelling City

http://www.fas.org/immuneattack/