Tag: collaboration
Diigo for Education
I have long been a fan of Diigo. I use it to bookmark web sites I find myself I also subscribe to several Diigo groups and receive email alerts with sites other educators find interesting. Recently though I discovered that Diigo has upgraded the service it offers teachers and so Mrs T and I are now using Diigo in our […]
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 […]
Google Docs in my classroom
Last week I found myself, sitting down on the job during a writing lesson, not the usual stance I take. Not only that, all my students were engaged in the writing process and I knew exactly what they were all up to. How can that be? Well earlier this year my school took on Google apps, since […]
Excitement in the classroom
All teachers plan and program to the best of their abilities. They try to prepare engaging and exciting lessons and to plan interesting learning opportunities. After all engaged and interested students come to school happy, are eager to learn and cause few discipline problems. Sometimes though it is the extra things, the unplanned for opportunities […]
Making Memories again.
What do you remember about your primary school days? We asked this question of our parents this week using our class blog and the answers were not surprising, not many of them remember tests or exams in their primary days. Yet for Australian students these days this week has been NAPLAN week. All Australian teachers […]
Classroom Spaces
If you had come into my year 5 classroom last term, for the most part you would have seen clusters of desks usually arranged in groups of four or six. So for my class of 26 that meant six different desk clusters, a couple at the front, a couple near the middle and two at […]
Connect, Collaborate and Create
Connect, collaborate and create. Three simple verbs, which have been tweeted by so many recently. In particular Pip Cleaves a connected learning consultant from New South Wales in Australia. Who has written an excellent post in which she discusses how these verbs are changing the face of digital education in her region of NSW. She […]
The Power of Twitter
I am a primary teacher and every year for the past five years I have taught my class a unit of work on Antarctica. In the NSW syllabus the study of Antarctica is part of the Human Society and Its Environment syllabus for Stage 3. The NSW Syllabus documents provide guidelines and expectations on what the […]
Change – for better or worse?
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.” – Anon I have often heard it said that as a group, teachers resist change more than anyone. Maybe we simply dislike or mistrust change so readily, that it’s easier to stay comfortable. Perhaps this is the reason why many of us resist the lure […]
TeachMeet Sydney – from little things big things grow
I have been feeling guilty this year because I just haven’t made it to any TeachMeets yet. I held the first Sydney TeachMeet in my classroom back in 2010 and since then I have worked with other Sydney educators, led by the amazing Mr TeachMeet himself @mesterman to attend, promote and host TeachMeets. Yet this year I […]