[Oz-teachers] Mindtools

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

There are 26 'ICT Mindtools' Tutorials on Margaret Meijers' website.

ALL these first rate software and programming tutorials are excellent.

If you know any ICT wiz-kid, why not challenge them to see ALL of them?

Any kid across most of these will be WELL ahead and with VERY good mind.


 http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au


Margaret writes,

By ICT Mindtools I refer to ICT tools that necessarily engage users in 
higher order thinking.  

Students cannot use Mindtools without thinking deeply about the task at 
hand.  Mindtools require students to be creative and to think and make 
connections for themselves. 


The online Tutorials:

Scratch 

Klik & Play 

Game Maker 

StarLogo TNG 

Squeak Etoys 

Alice 

Games Unit 

Anim8or 

Tales Animator 

3D Blender 

Fireworks 

Flash 

The Gimp

Media Computation 

Greenfoot 

VBA for PowerPoint 

Java 

Visual Basic 

Lego Robotics 

PicoCrickets 

CMap Concept Mapping 

Digital Stories 

CSLU Speech toolkit 

KA Video 

Bamzooki 

Soda Constructor 
 

'Children need to learn learning, which is primarily acquired through the 
passion that comes from access, the ability to make things, to 
communicate and to express. 

Writing a computer program, while seemingly esoteric, is in fact the 
closest a child can come to thinking about thinking. Likewise, debugging 
a program is the closest one can come to learning learning.'

This page has been produced by Margaret Meijers.  
Questions concerning its content may be directed by email to 
margaret.meijers at education.tas.gov.au

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Cheers Margaret
Stephen Loosley
Member, Victorian
Institute of Teaching