Category: Using technology
Blogging in the Classroom
Blogging – I love that word, don’t you? According to Yahoo answers the first blogs emerged during 1997 and the Spring of 1999. Online journal author Peter Merholz took Jorn Barger’s word ‘weblog’ and split it into the phrase ‘We blog.’ Soon after the word ‘Blog’ became shorthand for weblog. I am almost ashamed to […]
The 15 minute rule
I read this on Twitter a few days ago and it immediately struck a chord with me. “3x a week take 15min playing with new digi tool, 1x a wk 15min to integrate the tool into an existing lesson via @benpaddlejones“ So I retweeted it and added something like this. “This week I have explored […]
ACEC2010 – Day 4
Steve Collis wraps it up Exhausted, but empowered from my week in Melbourne, I’m now safely back at home in Sydney. Arriving at the airport on Friday night, it felt good to fall into the welcoming arms of my wonderfully supportive husband – without his help, both technically and domestically, I would find this journey […]
ACEC2010 – Day 3
Adam Elliot What a joy it was to sit with tears running down my face on Thursday morning listening to Adam Elliot’s inspirational journey from a Centrelink nobody to a Hollywood star. He made us all laugh, he touched us with his pathos, was incredibly entertaining and his slides were so rich in content. Watch […]
ACEC2010 – Day 2
Alan November and more… I’m not sure which was more exciting this morning, rapidly taking notes listening to Alan November’s interesting and informative speech or reading and contributing to the highly active twitter stream. All the while Gary Stager was promoting a degree of discourse by tweeting disparaging remarks about Alan November. Mostly in relation […]
ACEC2010 – Day 1
This morning I had breakfast with Gary Stager. While all around me, others were pounding away on their laptop keyboards, I preferred to just listen and absorb his message. He stated: “We have had computers in schools for 30 years – why are we still dragging teachers in?” After posing this question, he outlined three ways […]
The Amazing Web 2.0 projects book
Have you seen this? I printed it out this morning and firstly it seems like my holiday reading is sorted and secondly I cannot believe it is free. Coming of Age is an introduction to Web 2.0 which has been downloaded at least 60,000 times (I stopped keeping track after a while, and it’s available from […]
Team work
I have always promoted team work in my classroom, sometimes I will put my students into groups, at other times I will let them choose. Of course some groups will work better than others, some achieve much, some nothing at all. A few are content to sit back and let others take over, while others try to dominate, to boss, […]
Twitter for Educators using slideshow.net
Are you still trying to promote the use of Twitter in your school. I am even though it feels like an uphill battle. Perhaps I need to show them this excellent Slideshare. Here’s a ‘Twitter for Teachers’ slide show created by Samantha Morra a middle school technology coordinator in the US. You advance the slides […]
The IWB – Love it or hate it?
In Sydney the IWB is becoming an integral part of more and more classrooms. Yet there still seems to be debate about their merits and the roll they play in the classroom. I have had my SMARTboard now for eighteen months and I would have to admit that it is only within the last six, […]