Tag: Year 5
AIS Leaders Conference
Once again I find myself using this space to complement a presentation I am giving. I apologise if much of what I am writing appears familiar to my regular readers. Since however my presentation is on the merits of class and student bloggers, please bear with me. Perhaps you would like to add a comment […]
Learning with BTN
Behind The News is an Australian student current affairs program produced by the ABC. It can be watched on the television or directly from the BTN website. it has been a long tradition at my school for Year 5 students to watch BTN on a Friday afternoon. In the five years I have taught year […]
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 […]
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 […]
More on the What, When and Why of classroom blogging and online teaching
If you happen to be reading this without having seen my previous post can I urge you to check that out first. Can I then recommend you especially take note of the detailed and interesting comments, for which I am really grateful. It seems like there are many teachers out ‘there’ who want to help […]
To blog or not to blog?
An innocent comment on Twitter this week set quite a conversation flowing across the globe. To blog or not to blog with ones class? Or more precisely how to keep teachers blogging with their classes. It would appear I am not alone in finding other teachers love the concept of blogging, the idea of a […]
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 […]
Classroom Spaces
If you had come into my year 5 classroom last term, for the most part you would have seen clusters of desks usually arranged in groups of four or six. So for my class of 26 that meant six different desk clusters, a couple at the front, a couple near the middle and two at […]
U-stream in my classroon
Year 5 have spent the past four weeks in small groups of four students researching a country, so as to prepare a presentation to give to their peers. As a cohort they chose thirteen different countries. They followed expicit criteria and learning intentions to design a one slide SMARTboard file which contained the following. A […]
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 […]