Tag: blogging in the classroom
Connecting your classroom
As we come to the end of our summer holidays here in Australia, my mind inevitably starts to return to the task ahead of me, namely preparing my classroom for the year ahead. This week I have been into school to tidy up, rearrange desks and physically prepare my classroom. Mentally too I have been […]
From little things big things grow – The edublogs awards
I have been so busy with my term ending as well as staff presentations and workshops to run that this year edublogs awards have virtually passed me by. Last night however I realised that nominations had ended without my noticing and that voting was upon us. A quick glance through the nominations and I realised […]
AIS Leaders Conference
Once again I find myself using this space to complement a presentation I am giving. I apologise if much of what I am writing appears familiar to my regular readers. Since however my presentation is on the merits of class and student bloggers, please bear with me. Perhaps you would like to add a comment […]
ASLA11 – Using blogging and edmodo in the classroom and library
This post has been designed to supplement my presentation for the Australian School Librarian Conference on Tuesday October 4. Communicating for the 21st century: using tools such as Edmodo and student blogs to connect students with an authentic worldwide audience. During my presentation we will be logging on and checking out edmodo as well as looking […]
The Bloggers’ Cafe
It is hard to believe that what was a germ of an idea just over a year ago is now a fully fledged website that has just celebrated its first birthday, but it is. The Bloggers’ Cafe has turned one. When I wrote these words a year ago little did I realise that a year […]
IWBnet presentation
This post has been designed to supplement my presentation for The 5th National Leading a Digital School Conference. To be held on Thursday September 1 2011. Preparing Students for their future not your past through the integration of web 2.0 tools with an emphasis on blogging and edmodo. During my presentation we will be logging […]
More on the What, When and Why of classroom blogging and online teaching
If you happen to be reading this without having seen my previous post can I urge you to check that out first. Can I then recommend you especially take note of the detailed and interesting comments, for which I am really grateful. It seems like there are many teachers out ‘there’ who want to help […]
To blog or not to blog?
An innocent comment on Twitter this week set quite a conversation flowing across the globe. To blog or not to blog with ones class? Or more precisely how to keep teachers blogging with their classes. It would appear I am not alone in finding other teachers love the concept of blogging, the idea of a […]
It was a good week.
It was exactly a year ago that I wrote these words. My classroom was designed and built around eight years ago. Oh good I hear you say, it must be nice and modern. Well to some degrees it is, except that the architect who no doubt was sitting in his air-conditioned office at the time assured ‘the […]
ICTENSW Edmodo and Student blogging
This blog post has been prepared to support a presentation I am giving at the University of NSW for an ICTENSW workshop. My workshop will be provide participants with information on how to connect their classrooms to the world and extend the length of their school days, using edmodo and edublogs. The secure online networking […]