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Digital Abyss Still thinking about a new Blog title.......... However in my quest for a new title, I have been eFlipping through the top 100 educational blogs and came across this one : Information abyss – in the era of global education Are we as educators balancing on the edge?  I spend many an hour at home just going through the web finding resources, ideas, and internet hyper-activity, to enhance the teaching and learning experience of my classes, through Moodle, Wikispace, Google Sites, etc. I do wonder though sometimes, when I look at my students, they look at me and wish for a chalk-and-talk lesson....  I started my Wikispaces for my students of IB Design Technology because resources were woefully limited, and I wanted to allow the students to be able to recap and review their learning outside of the classroom. 4-5 years later I now continue updating the Wikispaces with over 100,000 hits a year, and also add new resources for our school's Moodle platform, whic...

New Blog title: Still thinking......... Updating and combining my blogs in a hope to make it more managable. So now you can check out widgets, online software the main idea is to pass on anything I think might be usefull to fellow educators, and basically are free... or nearly. Here is a chance to look at some of the free software that I come across in my weekly trawl of the widgits and freebies. Using some original examples of work created using the software, and a brief synopsis of their main features you too can become an avid digital interfacer. Want to know the top 100 Educational Blogs http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs Wednesday's Widgits is being overhauled Here is a site for my fellow teachers who wonder what widgits are??? No worries they don't bite, Its a way of adding interactivity to your VLEs (that's Moodles or Wikis in more normal speak) Enjoy and try them out, include them in your interactive teaching materials. Let me know ...