Category: 2010 posts
USTREAM in the classroom
My class enjoyed another first this week, communicating their learning via USTREAM. It was through reading this post from Chris Betcher that I had the idea, he had used it at his school to showcase an infants class. My co-teacher Pru and I decided to test it out with our end of year drama presentations. […]
2010 Edublogs awards
The 2010 Edublog Awards are open for nomination. They are held to celebrate the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology. As a primary school teacher my own personal learning and growth this year has been phenomenal. Much of what I have learned […]
Report writing season
Term four will end in approximately four weeks time at which point Australian parents, students and teachers alike will collectively give a sigh of relief and head to the beaches or the hills for six weeks of summer holidays. Until then though, for teachers, it is report writing season. In Australia, these will be our […]
Thinking in the classroom
My co-teacher and I believe strongly that our year 5 students should be learning to think for themselves. One of the ways we are trying to develop this in our classrooms is to use our class blog. Last week we posed the question ‘Should mobile phones be allowed in the classroom?‘ The students were asked […]
Another year of Mathematics draws to a close
As the school year slowly begins to come to a close, I have been reflecting on our mathematics program which I have blogged before about here. Overall I think for most of the students, it has been a successful year. Many of the lessons I have team taught with @pruthomas and others. This has really allowed […]
Out of my comfort zone
Last Monday night I was interviewed by Tony and Darrel of the edtech crew for one of their regular podcasts. If you read my blog you will know that I love listening to podcasts and that I regularly use them as ways to keep up with the constant changes happening in the world of education. […]
Ulearn10 – How the keynote speakers challenged me
A few days ago I attempted to reflect on some of the questions the Ulearn10 keynote speakers raised. Today I am going to try and reflect on some of the things I learned from those same keynote speeches. I am not attempting to record everything these excellent speakers said but to highlight what for me, […]
Using Edmodo in the primary classroom
If you read my post ‘What a difference a year makes’, you will know that a couple of weeks ago I gave my first ever conference presentations at Ulearn10. This was followed this week by a second presentation at aisitic10 in Sydney. Today I would like to try and share with you the presentation I […]
Ulearn10 – Questions from the keynote speakers
I was interested, amused and empowered by all the keynote speakers at Ulearn10. Yes I thought as they spoke, we need to do this, we must do that. But then I paused, reflected, took stock of the real world. I am returning to my school filled with new knowledge, new ideas and new inspirations. Some […]
A Year of Firsts
As my school year draws closer to the end, I have been reflecting on what an amazing year of firsts it has been for me. My first year of blogging. I started this blog back in January with my first post wondering if I could keep this blogging lark going. The number of half written […]