Tag: connect
Connecting from the classroom
How often do you contact the parents of the students you teach? Do you maintain a class newsletter? Or do you send class emails? Do you have a class blog which regularly displays examples of student work? Or do you only see parents at interview time? I read this article recently that Parents are taking […]
I Can Do That
This is my attempt to transcribe my presentation from TeachMeet North which was held at Ravenswood School on Wednesday November 16 2011. I Can Do That Or how I came out of my comfort zone and changed my life – And if I can so can you. I used to think that professional development for […]
It’s All About Relationships
I spent two days last week at a conference, one day of which I blogged about here. While the conference itself was a great opportunity to update skills and learn new things, once again the best part of it was meeting fellow tweeters, catching up with old friends and building relationships with fellow educators. This […]
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 […]
Teaching the teachers
I spent yesterday with a group of committed, eager to learn primary teachers. They were from a growing school on the outskirts of Sydney which has a reasonable number of classroom computers, some brand new SMARTboards and no dedicated ICT teacher. I was there at the invitation of their head teacher and with permission from […]
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 […]
Why do we blog?
Last term @pruthomas and I presented to our school about the benefits of student blogging. Since that time many of the teachers at my school have become really receptive to the idea and most of our junior classes now have their own blogs on the way. The class and student blog that I write along with […]
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 […]
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 […]