A recent post from Doug Johnson, Personal use of the Internet, has got me thinking about appropriate use of this resource by students and access to appropriate material via the service provider’s filter system. This has been a real hot topic amongst edubloggers during the past week or two and James Farmer’s original post has [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2005
I found a little snippet from Techlearning.com this morning about a teacher receiving an award for his textbook-less classroom. Teacher gleans federal kudos for bookless classroom is one of the full articles I found when I Googled his name and it makes for interesting reading. The teacher, Gerry Mangus, class’s test scores are way up [...]
I have to admit it. All this talk about Skype and how easy it is to use and I had never even used it. Sure, I’ve had it downloaded and sitting on my desktop at home ready to use but it wasn’t until Friday that I bought a new headset and configured my Skype account [...]
Twenty minutes is not a lot of time to get a concept across to an unfamiliar audience. Well, that was my job this morning as a presenter at the EChO (Early Childhood Organisation) Expo down at the Education Development Centre here in Adelaide. It was a half day event with the theme, “What’s out there?” [...]
Opening page on my flipchart for my first IWB presentation beyond my school borders – countdown to presentation – 15 minutes. More later.
I ran an after school workshop on an Introduction To Blogging on Tuesday after school that attracted a crowd of three interested colleagues. Probably not surprising because there are less than four weeks left in the school year and most teachers at my school don’t want any more professional development, thank you very much. And [...]
I am lucky enough to be booked in for an interesting couple of days of training next week. It’s called e-Portfolio Conference – Using Professional Standards For Teachers on the Thursday with a follow-on workshop the next day limited to 35 places. The featured speaker is Dr. Helen Barrett, of whom I was pretty ignorant [...]
Everyone loves a top five list so which blogs would make mine? Well, the way I would judge it would be this way – when I open up Bloglines and see who’s posted overnight (don’t forget Australia is ahead of Europe and North America if only in time) there are some feeds I absolutely get [...]
What comes after Generation Z? At my house, the digital natives get first access to all of the digital tools and the immigrants have to make do with their Pocket PC until they are finished. Case in point, my two year old son Joshua. He looks very comfortable zooming around in JumpStart Artist (free CD-ROM [...]
I was going to originally post this as a followup comment to a post from Aaron at Teacher in Development but it got so longwinded I thought I would post it here and trackback to his blog. Here in South Australia, our education system is run by a curriculum framework SACSA, that is outcomes based [...]
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