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Archive for December, 2011

Anseo.net Review of 2011

12.30.2011 · Posted in 2011, Diary, blogs, review

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As is traditional at the end of the year, Anseo.net looks back at the stories that occurred in 2011.

January

This time last year, we were in the depths of temperatures never seen in Ireland before as the icy grip of winter ...

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Save Content to Read Offline

12.27.2011 · Posted in offline, online, reading, tools

Read It Later Website Read it Later lets you save videos, articles or pretty much anything you find interesting to your 'Read It Later' queue. When you’re ready, view saved content on any of your devices. What do you think of Read It Later? ...

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Separate Animated GIFs

12.26.2011 · Posted in animated gifs, animation, images, online

GIFExploder Website GIFExploder lets you explode your animated gif images into seperate images. View the results and download each image seperately. What do you think of GIFExploder? ...

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Statistical Computing Environment

12.25.2011 · Posted in mac, mathematics, statistics, unix, windows

R Website R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics providing a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphica... ...

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Christmas games in the Irish classroom

12.21.2011 · Posted in Showcase

Who is coming on Christmas night

Christmas games in the classroom

I’ve put together a couple of games and activities that could be used in the classroom in those last few days where your pupils are very excited and find ...

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Khan Academy Is Not The Progressive Model You Are Looking For

There has been a great deal written about Khan Academy just recently and the concept of personalised instruction and how this is somehow revolutionary or some sort of game changer. But why is it engaging at all? Where does this type of instruction lead us? In my opinion the instructional maths videos posted on the ...

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