Here in South Australia, we’ve had Learning To Learn, and now I think I’m experiencing Blogging about Blogs. In the blogosphere at the moment, I would be like the new kid at school trying to work out who to be friends with (via Bloglines and the Blogrolls of those kids who’ve obviously been out in [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
One of my favourite tools in my life has to be my Pocket PC. I would highly recommend it to anyone in education as a way of organising and keeping on top of things throughout the school day. In my role as a coordinator here I am not in one location throughout the week so [...]
Wow, what a great day yesterday. I helped facilitate our ActivBoard team’s training day and although my proposed outline of events didn’t really last for too long, I think everyone got something out of it. Teachers got to play, really play with their boards and were ready to share some exciting things at the latter [...]
It’s always a challenge to plan for and implement new technologies in the school scenario. That’s been my role in the purchase of our school’s new ActivBoards. Well, I know that interactive whiteboards are hardly a new technology in the scheme of things but they are a relative newcomer on the Aussie primary school scene. [...]
I’ve just revisited one of my favourite blogs Teach 42 where I posted a response to Steve’s entry on Would you want a computer without internet? Here it is: Mate, you are dead right about the web connection being the most critical part for a classroom teacher now. I had to present our new Activboards [...]
Well, the school has released me from my classroom teaching duties to spend some time sorting out teacher issues/ questions with our ActivBoards. Part of the deal is getting to go along with my bosses, Jo and Mary to this EDC presentation by a teacher, Alison Sutcliffe. The full title is “Visual texts: a journey [...]
Well, I’ve managed to get on top of the teething problems associated with the school’s ActivBoard installation – laptops are now communicating with projectors, USB ports are configured to communicate to the ActivBoard and I’m now confident enough to start exploring the new ways in which I can present lessons to my class. When Peter [...]
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