I’ve spent the evening playing around with a few of the StartPages that are around the place for a couple of reasons – one, to see if there are any good “gluing” solutions for my e-portfolio possibilities and two, because I’m covering them in one of my 15 minute sessions for the Web 2.0 Showcase [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
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Doug Johnson, over at the Blue Skunk Blog, leverages his Learning Network and looks for answers to his own questions about the hiring of tech-savvy teachers. I’m game! What makes a tech savvy teacher? (Is it attitude or knowledge of specific minimum of hardware/software packages?) A tech-savvy teacher is one who acknowledges and enters the [...]
My initial raw thoughts for an ICT vision for my school have had a few boosts through the blogosphere over the last few days. I even sat down yesterday and had a brain-spill over a large piece of A3 paper for about 40 minutes, trying to distill my ideas about what we should be using [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of hours scouring the web for information relating to my e-portfolio Action Research Project and it’s been hard going. Perhaps it’s a measure of my lack of effective digital literacy skills or just perhaps the ongoing conversation about this idea is a bit thin on the ground. I have two [...]
Just finished reading and responding to a great post by Vicki Davis over at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog on the importance of balance and perspective in education and life in general. Now, I’m not a religious person by any stretch but I found myself nodding my head more and more as I read on. [...]
D’Arcy again points to something interesting which points to something else even more fascinating. Meet John A. Davidson, who is onto his third blog about the end of evolution (these science types really get into it). Each blog he has started has only one post but multiple comments – I think 600 odd comments on [...]
When I first started in my current job, my role was defined by a one line section of our school vision statement. That vision had been developed in 2002 just before my arrival in 2003. It read:- We will have a strong learning culture supported by a harassment-free environment and up-to-date technology. Students will be [...]
As part of the preparation for our Parent Information evening, I sat down with one of our new Interactive Whiteboard users to check through what she intended to show as her contribution. Maria is a middle primary teacher and has now had an ACTIVboard in her classroom for nearly six weeks and it was interesting [...]
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