Tag: Twitter
Planning and Sharing with Social Media
My team teaching buddy is sick. Poor Pru has not made it back to school this term and although she is on the mend she will not be accompanying our class to Bathurst next week. This annual one night excursion is for most of our students the highlight of our inquiry unit, ‘What was life […]
Rest and Relaxation
I have just returned from five days in the picturesque Hunter Valley near Sydney. During my five days I had with me my darling supportive husband. During my five days I did not have with me a computer, a phone, any children, my dog or my chickens. I also had no washing, cooking, cleaning or […]
The Power of the PLN
I had a very minor meltdown last week, brought entirely on by myself. I want so much to improve, I have so many ideas. I am trying to achieve too much, too fast. No one except my PLN and I knew about this meltdown as I only revealed myself in the following tweet. Do you […]
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 […]
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 […]
ACEC2010 – Day 2
Alan November and more… I’m not sure which was more exciting this morning, rapidly taking notes listening to Alan November’s interesting and informative speech or reading and contributing to the highly active twitter stream. All the while Gary Stager was promoting a degree of discourse by tweeting disparaging remarks about Alan November. Mostly in relation […]
Global Connections – Team Work
Last week I reflected on how teachers need to work together and collaborate to break down the barriers of the classroom walls and how empowering it was to connect with other teachers and collaborate through Twitter. Learning to work with others is such a difficult task, that perhaps it really is no surprise that some […]
Twitter for Educators using slideshow.net
Are you still trying to promote the use of Twitter in your school. I am even though it feels like an uphill battle. Perhaps I need to show them this excellent Slideshare. Here’s a ‘Twitter for Teachers’ slide show created by Samantha Morra a middle school technology coordinator in the US. You advance the slides […]
Communicating from Canberra
I have just returned from three days visiting’ Our Nations Capital’ Canberra. Canberra is a popular Year 6 excursion, since all stage three Australian students have to learn about Democracy and Government. It is also usual to try and cram in as many of its attractions as possible while there and so on our trip we visited the following places. […]