Tag: ACEC2010
When trusting your teacher is wrong
My class have one lesson a week as a timetabled computer lesson. Last term our ICT teacher spent the final three weeks teaching them what I think is one of the most important lessons they can learn. Not to trust ones teacher! Or to put it a better way, do not believe everything you read. […]
From little things big things grow
I am beginning to feel that at last the ball is rolling. As Paul Kelly once sang…from little things big things grow. If you follow this blog you will know that after a particularly frustrating techie brekkie, I decided to return to basics. To stop trying to inspire my staff with new and exciting tools […]
It’s worth keeping an eye on these blogs… With thanks
This week I discovered that I have been nominated to receive an award from three of my favourite bloggers. This is the award that I recieved. The award is part of an initiative called ‘Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog’, which translated means ‘It’s worth keeping an eye on this blog’. I am honoured […]
Techie Breakie – Take 2
A while back I wrote a post about how I had volunteered to hold techie breakies at my school in order to attempt to pass on some of my new found knowledge and enthusiasm to my staff. So far I have covered the following: Essential web 2.0 tools for the classroom, what every teacher should […]
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 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 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 […]