Inspirational Eduation TED Talks

First of all a couple of exceptional TED Talks to take a peek at  - Dealing with students and creativity.

A  video from Eric Sheninger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwrLVvORugw

For commentary on this talk and  how much school has to change see: http://esheninger.blogspot.ca/

And second a classic education video by Sir Ken Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Also a list of the 10 Best TED Talks of 2014 for Educators :

http://www.edudemic.com/10-best-ted-talks-of-2014-for-educators/  Take a look around this site, it has lots of excellent links on technology, use of Ipads, and apps for your phone...

Just a couple of additional notes;

1) Having trouble opening/printing a student file - It is probably an incompatible file type that our version of Windows/Office cannot deal with.  I suggest having the student save their files at home as an .rtf file (rich text format).

2)Trouble with opening one of our Mac Laptops to windows.  Simple enough, hold down the option key (the second key on either side of the space bar) while holding down the power key as well.  You may have to hold the power key down for a considerable length of time for the laptops to boot up. And then click on the Windows Icon (or the Mac Icon if desired).

Also while USB drives are excellent for transporting files, they do occasionally crash.  You cannot back up your work often enough.. You might also try cloud storage services such as OurCloud or Google Drive to back things up.

Library notes are archived on the HERH Library Blog at http://herhlibrary.blogspot.ca/

Tim