Category: November 2010
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 […]
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. […]