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Remember when your children left lego pieces laying around to be stepped on panfully or to be sucked up by the vacuum cleaner? There is an alternaitive... Lego Digital Designer.

Schools have been investing in the robotic mindstorms components of Lego to teach robotic programming, but LDD provides a low cost (free) tool for design. You do need a computer that has the latest software for your graphics card and in some schools, the program may be blocked as it tries to go to the Internet to update it's brick palettes.

I posted previously on Lego Digital Designer and now present Joe's first movie on a creation he made yesterday.

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Joe has to read to his parents for 15 minutes. I thought this would be a good chance to show what an eportfolio example is. Joe is not being formally assessed on this work, but by placing a recording of his work here - it proves that he has done his homework and provides an example of his standard of reading at this point in time. So, if you are interested, here are the first three chapters of Roald Dahl's book Fantastic Mr Fox as recorded by Joe Christie - 8 years old.

Words to work on - Orchard, Pot Bellied and probably a couple of others of I missed.

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Hopefully an interesting lead in to what they actually do which is educate. I was looking for educationally useful streaming media sites and stumbled across the Discovery Education site which has content for home schoolers as well as a wealth of free and paid resources for viewing.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/math/math_homework_help.html Don't just check out the mathematics section, English Science and many others are also covered.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/ contains lesson plans from K - 12 and of course suggest that you purchase resources from Discovery which you may choose to do but the foundaton resources available free here for the beginning or seasoned educator is certainly worth bookmarking.

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If you don't know what Adobe Presenter is, it is an add-in for Powerpoint that turns it into a multimedia eLearning tool complete with quizes and the ability to be embedded within a Learning Management System.

Adobe will tell you more at this link http://www.adobe.com/products/presenter/ and there are some Adobe specific resources that covers selecting a microphone https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/microphones 

Do you want to add a quiz to your presentation? https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/presenterquizzes/

When you are rolling out courseware across a school or a number of schools, it is best to have some standard PowerPoint templates that subject areas can quickly modify to deliver their lessons. Additionally the PowerPoint templates can include pages that use instructional design frameworks for computer based training or eLearning as we call it today. The following templates are example of how the University of Southern Queensland has created a library of PowerPoint templates for use by staff. Check them out.

http://www.usq.edu.au/Dec/courseprep/presenter/pp_essentials.htm

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