Tag: technology
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 […]
Personal Goals
Do you set goals for the year, whether personal or professional? When I start back at school next week, one of the things I will be asked to do is to write down my professional goals for the year. I really cannot remember what I wrote last year but what I do know is that […]
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 […]
The 15 minute rule
I read this on Twitter a few days ago and it immediately struck a chord with me. “3x a week take 15min playing with new digi tool, 1x a wk 15min to integrate the tool into an existing lesson via @benpaddlejones“ So I retweeted it and added something like this. “This week I have explored […]
Celebrating the blogging Primary Teacher
Did you know that depending on which statistic you believe that there are somewhere between 133,000,000 and 200,000,000 blogs that have been indexed by Technorati since 2002 according to their report State of the Blogosphere. Now obviously most of these are not written by teachers but even if just a tiny percentage is, that is […]
Technology Free Hour
Its week 5 already and in my household the routine of term time is well and truly up and running. Up early, lunch boxes and school bags packed, in the car off to the station, drop the boys, off to work to be followed by homework, basketball training, basketball games, guitar and musical rehearsals. Finally […]
Survivor – Week 1 Year 5
Week 1, Term 1 is over, Hallelujah! Only nine more weeks until the holidays. What dreadful comment, I am a teacher who loves her job, who finds pleasure in the small things, how can I possibly be feeling like this already? Well it’s a combination of things. My classroom was designed and built around eight years ago. […]
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 […]
Open to the possibilities
I love listening to podcasts as I walk my dog, since it is the holidays for me I am walking for 40 minutes a day, you can listen to a lot in 40 minutes. One podcast I subscribe to is edtech talk. Today in edtech weekly they were talking about being open to the possibilities. […]
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 […]