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I don’t know about you but I have a few faithful work outfits that I love. To my sadness my absolute favourite waffle weave cardigan is dying. It is a top I feel comfortable in. It is one I remember purchasing with fondness and one I know looks good with many outfits. But now that […]
Young ICT Explorers
Some readers may know that early this year many students in my class entered a competition called the Young ICT Explorers Australia award and that eight year 6 groups from my school made it to the finals. I blogged about the amazing experience we all had that day here. This week a video was released that reflects […]
Why teachers should blog
This is a copy of a Prezi I gave at the PLANE Festival of Learning last week. I have already blogged here with some of my reflections from the event. I started blogging nearly three years ago now and I know how it has changed the way I teach in so many ways. For me […]
Simple Teaching Tip
My class have been working all year on what I like to term ‘writing like a writer’. We have writing sessions were we ‘get dirty’ with our writing, by critiquing each others writing. By that I mean we criticize and suggest improvements for each other. I am firmly of the belief that even the best writer can aim to improve. That […]
PLANE – Festival of learning
I spent Friday afternoon and all day Saturday at the launch of the PLANE website, aptly termed the festival of learning or #FOL12. it was a wonderful opportunity to learn, to network and to play with other educators from around NSW. Yes, play as a large element of the PLANE style uses gaming to attract […]
The HSC arrives
The HSC (Higher School Certificate) exams start tomorrow with English Paper One. For any parent of a year 12 student in NSW this exam marks the beginning of the end of secondary education for their child. This year that includes me, since one of my sons is about to start his final exams. I have […]
Reflections from ACEC2012
Four days of intense thinking, talking, meeting and learning is over and I am writing this as I travel home. As I always find after any conference, my brain is overloaded and my iPad full of notes. This post will be my attempt to make sense of those notes and my ideas. Alice: I am […]
ACEC2010 to ACEC2012
I was a delegate at ACEC2010 in Melbourne just over two years ago, during the Easter school holidays if my memory serves me right. I had heard about the conference through a Twitter buddy and I put my hand up asking my school if they would help me with some of the costs, if I […]
Adobe Education Leaders Summit
I have just returned from three days of networking, sharing, learning and eating thanks to Adobe and my brain is buzzing. This blog post will attempt to be a bit of a brain dump, as I gather my thoughts from my time away. During the summit, I learned more about current Adobe software. I learned about yet […]
Learning through drama
My year six students have been working hard this term to complete a number of in class ‘real’ projects. By ‘real’ I mean that we have tried as far as possible to reach our needed outcomes with tasks that have meaning and relevance for them. The first of these projects, fractured fairytale plays came to […]