Jane Hart, a social business consultant, and founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, has been compiling a list of the top 100 tools for learning since 2007. The 2010 list is currently being compiled and you can view the full list here – Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010. Interestingly, you […]
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New Look Blog!
I’ve changed the theme of my blog to WPMU Dixi 2.0 by incsub. I made the custom header in Picasa using my own images and Creative Commons images from FlickrCC. See the sidebar for attribution details. Leave a comment and let me know what you think of the new theme.
Student Blogging and Internet Images
A few weeks ago I set up blogs for two of my most enthusiastic student bloggers, Rhiannon and Bianca. I chose these students as they regularly left comments on our 2KM class blog and were committed to learning as much as they can about blogging. After gaining their parents’ permission, I set their blogs up, […]
Tech Tools for Teachers #22 PrimaryPad
Each week Simon Collier and I collaborate on an email newsletter for teachers called Tech Tools for Teachers. Click here to find an archive of past newsletters and to subscribe. This week we review the site PrimaryPad http://primarypad.com/ PrimaryPad is a tool that allows students and teachers to collaborate on a word-processor style document. Despite […]
Tech Talk Tuesdays and Classroom 2.0 LIVE
Last week, I posted about my top ten ways to engage in online professional development (PD). Tonight I participated in one of my recommended forms of PD (which I don’t get to as often as I’d like) – the Victorian Education Department’s Virtual Conference Centre. While there are a wide range of sessions every day […]
Top 10 Ways to Engage in Professional Development
Not so long ago, professional development for teachers meant a one of excursion to an off-site location. Teachers were the passive recipients of professional development. Times have changed. A teacher no longer has to be the expert in the classroom and a teacher no longer needs an expert to develop their skills. Professional development for […]
A Double Milestone!
This post marks a special double milestone, and…. I started this blog on 14th March 2009 and initially I was motivated by the benefits that self-reflection bring. It wasn’t long before I discovered the joys of reaching out to people and developing an interactive audience. Thank you to everyone who reads my blog and I […]
Ed Tech Crew Podcast
Ed Tech Crew is one of my favourite podcasts. Every week or two Darrel Branson (The ICT Guy) and Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com discuss all things to do with technology in education. I am often blown anyway by the amount I can learn by listening to an episode of the Ed Tech crew so I […]
Article: Are Digital Natives Restless?
Last week I was contacted by Jewel Topfield, a reporter from The Age newspaper, who wanted to visit my classroom to watch me teach and talk to me about how I use technology in the classroom. Jewel and a photographer visited one of our daily reading rotations in my grade two class and had the […]
Tech Tools for Teachers
Since the beginning of 2010, I have been collaborating with a fellow teacher, Simon Collier on a free weekly e-mail for teachers. With our 20th newsletter milestone approaching, this post is a reminder if you or someone you know has not yet signed up for the newsletters. Each week our email newsletter features a useful […]
Social Media Monitoring
Last week I posted about Denis Masseni’s report “Why Schools are Spooked by Social Media.” An interesting component of this report was on social media monitoring. That is, monitoring the internet for mentions of a particular keyword (such as your school). This is a good way to take defensive action if negative mentions occur and […]
New Page: Educational Blogging
I am often asked for information about blogging with my class so I have decided to compile the posts I have written on educational blogging on a new page. Here you will find information about setting up your class blog, establishing rules and guidelines, educating parents about blogging, teaching commenting skills and more. What sort […]
Why Schools are Spooked by Social Media
I was pleased I was listening to ABC Radio Melbourne this morning when I heard the next segment was going to be about social media in schools. While I braced myself for a flood of ill informed callers harping on the negatives of Facebook and the like I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome. Denis […]
Sites for Integration Aides
Monday 9th August is a statewide curriculum day for Ultranet implementation in Victoria. For readers who are outside of Victoria, Australia, the Ultranet is a $60.5 million online portal for teachers, students and parents in Victorian government schools. Read my post on my initial thoughts on the Ultranet here. I am a Lead User at […]
Super Teacher Worksheets
Super Teacher Worksheets is a useful site for primary school teachers if you’re looking for simple printable worksheets. Some of these worksheets are free. Membership to the whole site costs $20/year. The worksheets are divided into categories such as math, reading, writing, social studies, science etc. These are then broken down to sub categories. Super Teacher Worksheets […]