I signed up for a CoComment account a while back because I thought it would be a great way to track conversations arising from comments I’ve placed around the blogosphere. I like to think that I give comments a fair bit in a wide variety of locations and I’m a strong believer that it is [...]
Monthly Archive for March, 2006
We had a learning team meeting last night after school to focus on aspects of the new common reporting format and to start initial planning for our Middle Schooling Conference Workshop in August. As we tossed ideas around, we concluded that in this case, we’d better start with our audience in mind and think about [...]
Just a real quickie to say that our class blog Learning Area 21 is now starting to gain momentum with quite a few posts from kids about our recent camp with quite a few offering each other encouragement via the comments. They’re still learning – they often refer to a post as a “cool blog!!!!!” [...]
This post’s title refers to a slogan from a non-alcoholic drink called Clayton’s, on sale in Australia quite a few years ago that was marketed as “the drink you have when you are not having a drink”. So in Aussie vernacular, a Clayton’s is anything that isn’t quite genuine, not quite what it looks like, [...]
I’ve been a big fan of Doug Johnson since Will Richardson’s reference to him in the comments of one of his posts. Now, Doug is a very experienced educator, author of several books and maintains a comprehensive website consisting of his collective resources, experiences and wisdom. One thing that really resonated with me listening to [...]
Via my boss, this link to Illinios Maths & Science Academy titled Designing Developing a PBL Unit. Very good at breaking down the process into manageable steps. Thanks, Ann.
For a while, my Bloglines account has steadily built up when I’ve been busy and then it’s a case of reading to catch up. Some of the bloggers I subscribe to pour out an enormous amount of content. I sometimes like to think of them as superbloggers. They post daily at the least and can [...]
Via Technorati, I found the Powerhouse Museum blog where another post on Marc Prensky’s Adelaide seminar. The cool part is the great conversation underneath in the comments section. Worth a read……
Doug‘s recent post, Resources for Copyright Literacy, was very timely. How to effectively teach kids about the issues of intellectual property and the concept of copyright has been hampered by my practical ignorance in this area. I’ve always known that copying slabs of other people’s written content was both morally and legally wrong but in [...]
Late last year, I compiled an abstract on the last day of term on behalf of our Middle Years Learning Unit team (MYLU for short) for the Third International Middle Years of Schooling Conference being held here in Adelaide in August and yesterday, I found out that we’ve been accepted to present! The e-mail started [...]
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