Monthly Archive for February, 2006

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This Idea Could Actually Work

My recent post, Is It Possible To Have Self Directed PD? attracted some quality responses via comments and pingbacks which confirmed my ideas could and have worked before. Thanks to all who have contributed either to provide examples or additional thoughts. I would highly recommend downloading the pdf file that Doug Johnson provided. Titled “The [...]

An Eventful Day

My day in dot points: Started cautiously at my local coordinators’ cluster meeting where my frustration at the lack of direction, domination by loudest voices and general lack of commonality has been brewing for the best part of the year. Thankfully, thanks to a visit and offer of support from one of our district’s Learning [...]

Is It Possible To Have Self Directed PD?

I’ve been pondering a rethink of the ICT training and development opportunities that I might provide my staff in 2006. Part of my role description here at my school calls for me to provide T&D to improve skills and confidence for my onsite colleagues. So in previous years, I’ve run courses on FrontPage, digital cameras, [...]

Tackling The Problems of Inquiry Learning From A Goat’s Point Of View

As I read more and start thinking about the year ahead, I find that the blogs engaging my brain are quite different from my original Top Five list. Leigh Blackall would still be there as his posts really challenge – even though he is based in a different sector of Aussie education to me, his [...]

Crunching Student Data

I’ve conducted a Technology Survey of my 5/6 class here at school (10/11 year olds) to see how digitally native they are and to see if there was any sort of digital divide that might be barriers in my increased use of Read/Write technology. (We started a class blog the other day – when it [...]