Tag: podcasts
A must listen to podcast
It is not often that I use this space to rave about any one thing in particular. I do however love listening to podcasts and I have written about and recommended them before. Read this post for more details. Yesterday as I always do, I walked my dog and listened to one of my favourites […]
Out of my comfort zone
Last Monday night I was interviewed by Tony and Darrel of the edtech crew for one of their regular podcasts. If you read my blog you will know that I love listening to podcasts and that I regularly use them as ways to keep up with the constant changes happening in the world of education. […]
Creating with Cardboard
If you are one of my regular readers you will know that my class are currently two thirds the way through a unit of work about Antarctica. Last term they completed self-directed research tasks using books and computers, which they could present in many ways. They also had teacher directed lessons, focused on our inquiry […]
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 […]
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 […]
Team work
I have always promoted team work in my classroom, sometimes I will put my students into groups, at other times I will let them choose. Of course some groups will work better than others, some achieve much, some nothing at all. A few are content to sit back and let others take over, while others try to dominate, to boss, […]
Sticking my neck out
Last year, when I discovered something new, I would send ideas and links to my fellow staff members and present items in my staff meetings. I knew that it often made no real difference to my colleagues use of technology. They all listened politely and then in the hustle and bustle of classroom life, carried on following their own […]
Learning through listening
It is the holidays here in Australia, much needed and definitely hard earned by all of us involved in education. At the end of term I was exhausted, wound up and in need of a change. So I have been taking a break, a deliberate effort not to read every post that reaches my in-box. […]