Tag: connect
A message to my readers
All of a sudden I seem to have a whole new readership. Almost daily my email tells me of a new ping-back comment. It appears I have made it onto a university list and my guess is these students are visiting and reading lots of education blogs. These students are using blogs as a reflective […]
Old favourites
I don’t know about you but I have a few faithful work outfits that I love. To my sadness my absolute favourite waffle weave cardigan is dying. It is a top I feel comfortable in. It is one I remember purchasing with fondness and one I know looks good with many outfits. But now that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]