One of the best ways to annoy me is to come up to me in mid-conversation with someone about the benefits of blogging and drop this line,” Blogging. You’ve obviously got a lot of spare time.” It annoys me on a number of levels. Firstly, because it dismisses blogging as frivolous and as a spare [...]
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Tonight after school, we held our termly Middle School Kooyonga Cluster meeting. The focus was on Student Initiated Curriculum and we had some guest speakers – practicing teachers who were prepared to share their experiences and individual approaches. First up, we heard from Richard Maynard, who talked about his school’s approach titled “Personalised or Individualised [...]
Well, if you read the last two posts and were confused, a little bit of background is in order. Today I attended the ICT Research Expo at TSOF which featured presentations from the 2005 ICT Research Grants. The Action Research Grants have been a DECS initiative since 2003 and I was lucky enough to score [...]
Creating animations through peer tutoring. Mandy Way, Karen Butler, Averil Pope and Malcolm Woolven from The Pines PS. Their research question was: I’ll show you – creating animations through peer tutoring. Using the program Swish to improve the literacy outcomes of ESL students was the focus. We saw a short video clip showing the kids [...]
Digital Cameras in the Junior Primary Classroom Annette Davey and Diana Smith from Port Lincoln J.P. Their research question was: How does the use of ICT and in particular digital cameras and related technology enrich the early Literacy shills acquisition of new Reception students? The two teachers maintained a professional journal – used Word, then [...]
Some of my thinking about the best way to deploy technology in the primary school classroom seems to be heading in either of two near future directions. One – build it big enough that everyone can see the same thing or small enough that everyone can have one of their own. One costly thing that [...]
This post has been in the holding bay for over a week so I thought I’d better finish it up and get it posted. There’s been a bit of talk over at TALO regarding a Web 2.0 overview in the Newspapers In Education section of Adelaide’s only daily newspaper, the Advertiser. As I barely buy [...]
Browsing through my WordPress referers section and checking out my Technorati links reveals some interesting information about who is stumbling on this particular blog and who is actually referencing its contents. As a blogroll is a form of recommendation, it is always flattering and humbling to see where Teaching Generation Z pops up. Recently I’ve [...]
It does pay to look closely at the not-so-fine print when reading. James is holding a competition to predict when the 10,000th blog on edublogs.org will be created. But after I posted my guess at his blog, I read the other 33 comments and someone with better reading skills than me pointed out that: …..all you have [...]
Two of the districts in the Adelaide metro area put on a half day session of professional development today for aspiring leaders at the Glenelg Golf Club. I knew about this last week and I e-mailed the contact person to register my interest for this opportunity even though I had never heard of the keynote [...]
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