A while back I postulated the idea that all teachers today should have some form of online presence. I had some varying reactions to my ideas and had to do some mental justification. Maybe I needed to clarify. By online presence, I did not mean that I envisaged all teachers with their own websites, weekly [...]
Monthly Archive for February, 2007
No danger of this video going viral and I risk alienating my Kiwi subscribers but this “classic” moment of Australian sporting infamy can be relived time and time again, thanks to YouTube. Love digging in the files… [youtube]UkQRERykq5M[/youtube]
For the past four weeks I’ve been teaching the old fashioned way with the minimal use of technology in the classroom. I have had the ACTIVboard, of course, and the challenge this year has been to get the students using the board as much as possible. But the computer room and the two classroom PC [...]
I’ve been scouring the web trying to find some teacher friendly resources to help my staff colleagues get into using del.icio.us. Why del.icio.us? Well, there are a host of social networking sites out there and some of them have more innovative features and more elegant graphical interfaces than del.icio.us, but no one has a bigger [...]
This photo brings back many memories of my formative years in teaching. For three years I headed west away from “civilisation” along the Eyre Highway in my old brown Chrysler Valiant teaching at Miltaburra, the area school in a paddock and Ceduna, where I first experienced teaching in complex and challenging situations that taught me [...]
Via educationau, I found out that Jimmy Wales will be the feature speaker at their 2007 seminar series – Challenging how knowledge is created. Last year I got to see Marc Prensky as part of the 2006 seminars. His visit sparked off a lot of local discussion and his influence was felt in a number [...]
I used this handy tool today with my class as part of our unit of work on Identity. The students had a thumbnail sheet of their classmates that they could cut out and arrange on the graphic. But… the catch was that they had to justify the specific placement of each student pic by recording [...]
Christopher D. Sessums says: We need an instructional theory that states: “we must listen to people who think differently than we do.” That’s why it’s important for someone like me to listen to someone like Dan Meyer. His latest post adds another must watch video to the ones I highlighted in my last post. One [...]
Add The Web Is Us/ing Us to other must view resources like Did You Know? and Epic 2015 (nearly two years old now). I know that plenty of bloggers are linking to this right now but I wanted a copy to watch in the comfort of my blog. [youtube]6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube]
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