About me
Hi – I am a Year 5 teacher from a private girls school in Sydney. I intend to use this blog to explore, learn and reflect on my teaching, as I attempt to navigate and incorporate web 2.0 into my classroom.
I am a mother of three, married to a graphic designer, own a labradoodle called Monte and two Isabrown chickens named fairly predictably, Ginger and Goldie.
I also blog at http://www.techiebrekkie.net/
My class blog can be found at http://year5rc.edublogs.org
In 2010 I spoke at Ulearn10 and the AIS integrators conference. In 2011 I will be speaking at the 5th National Leading a Digital School Conference which will be held in Melbourne in September and the AIS Leaders Conference to be held in Sydney in October. I will be speaking on the way I use blogging and edmodo in my classroom. I look forward to meeting with fellow bloggers and educators at these conferences.
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- The 15 minute rule – a new idea. | Talkin' 'bout my cerebration. - [...] was inspired by this post from Henrietta Miller at Classroom Chronicles, who in turn was inspired by a tweet ...
Hey, I’m in my last year at Macquarie studying to be a primary teacher. I have similarly only recently found the world of twitter and the #edchat and #newedblog tags and their use. Do you know of any specific NSW online teacher communities. I have joined The Educators PLN and Classroom 2.0 on the Ning network which have great resources but I was looking for something more specific to NSW.
Best of luck with your SMARTboard endeavours. We had a few classes on how to construct learning objects and activities to do on them but I agree I found it very teacher centred. I have been thinking perhaps they are better used in smaller groups i.e. reading groups where 4-6 students could complete an activity together on them. They would be good to use on instruction of twitter, and other internet facilities however I guess that makes them a glorified projector.
Keep up the great work, Regards,
Josh Aghion
it looks like you are on the right track Josh – keep it up. Who knows you might even be a prac student in my class this year! I am a Maquarie master teacher and will have a final year student with me later this semester. I do not know of any specific NSW teacher communities, in fact it is a struggle to find that many NSW teachers on Twitter. The educators PLN and classroom 2.0 are great and i think that by starting with them you will find yourself drawn into to others. The problem I found last year in using an IWB for small group session was that the novelty of it meant that all the students wanted to take part, thus distracting the rest of the class. Hopefully that will settle down as they become less of a novelty.
have a great year
Congratulations Henrietta! Your site has been nominated in the ACCE Australasian Educational Media Awards. Visit the conference website to vote for your own site and leave a comment on other nominated resources. Friends and colleagues may also wish to support your nomination. http://acec2010.info/acce-edsoft-awards/gallery
The two winning entries will be announced at the ACEC2010 Conference on Friday 9 April.
Dear Henrietta
Reading about your blg has really inspired me to look further into this area. You are a really exciting teacher.
Kate