Comments on: Melbourne Connections http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:37:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Rosie http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-11758 Rosie Fri, 11 May 2007 04:20:31 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/melbourne-connections/#comment-11758 Greetings from one of the VIC 6. Not sure if I can make the time to get into this blogging thing (most people seem to be writing when I'm fast asleep!), but I really enjoyed reading your post. You write with a very descriptive, entertaining and lighthearted style. from your buddy in seat 7B Greetings from one of the VIC 6.
Not sure if I can make the time to get into this blogging thing (most people seem to be writing when I’m fast asleep!), but I really enjoyed reading your post.
You write with a very descriptive, entertaining and lighthearted style.
from your buddy in seat 7B

]]> By: mscofino http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-11756 mscofino Fri, 11 May 2007 01:34:05 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/melbourne-connections/#comment-11756 I love the UbD model - I was just co-planning a tech integration project with our grade 6 math teacher yesterday, and just using the 6 facets of understanding, we came up with so many unique, authentic and fun activities and tasks for the students to do to support their learning. Jay is a great presenter! I went to his workshop this fall and I was amazed at how deep his understanding of, well, basically everything curriculum related, is. I hope you enjoyed the conference :) I love the UbD model – I was just co-planning a tech integration project with our grade 6 math teacher yesterday, and just using the 6 facets of understanding, we came up with so many unique, authentic and fun activities and tasks for the students to do to support their learning.

Jay is a great presenter! I went to his workshop this fall and I was amazed at how deep his understanding of, well, basically everything curriculum related, is. I hope you enjoyed the conference :)

]]> By: Jane Nicholls http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-11754 Jane Nicholls Thu, 10 May 2007 23:38:31 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/melbourne-connections/#comment-11754 Hi Graham It is interesting as you say, this blogging thing! I have been reading blogs for quite a long time, longer than I have been writing them :-). At the beginning of this year David Warlick came to a conference I was attending in Rotorua NZ. I saw him walking down the hallway, greeted him and asked how his son was doing. That was when I realised with horror, that I didn't actually know this man!!! I had listened to his podcasts for so long and read his blog and made comments, that it felt like I had been having an ongoing conversation with him for over a year :-). It is great how blogging and podcasting is opening our doors to both our classrooms and our countries so we can interact with like minded people and not be geographically challenged (by the way, I lived in Perth for 20 years and never went anywhere! Now I'm in NZ and seem to be hopping on a plane to often!) Hi Graham
It is interesting as you say, this blogging thing! I have been reading blogs for quite a long time, longer than I have been writing them :-) . At the beginning of this year David Warlick came to a conference I was attending in Rotorua NZ. I saw him walking down the hallway, greeted him and asked how his son was doing. That was when I realised with horror, that I didn’t actually know this man!!! I had listened to his podcasts for so long and read his blog and made comments, that it felt like I had been having an ongoing conversation with him for over a year :-) . It is great how blogging and podcasting is opening our doors to both our classrooms and our countries so we can interact with like minded people and not be geographically challenged (by the way, I lived in Perth for 20 years and never went anywhere! Now I’m in NZ and seem to be hopping on a plane to often!)

]]> By: Julie Lindsay http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-11733 Julie Lindsay Thu, 10 May 2007 15:14:12 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/melbourne-connections/#comment-11733 Graham, Melbourne is my home town...born in Blackburn, lived in Eltham before I left 10 years ago for international teaching. Great to hear you met up with Jo. I will be in town in July would love to meet up with who ever is around....sorry, not coming to Adelaide in the near future. Thanks for prompting a touch of a tear hearing about home base. Julie Graham, Melbourne is my home town…born in Blackburn, lived in Eltham before I left 10 years ago for international teaching. Great to hear you met up with Jo. I will be in town in July would love to meet up with who ever is around….sorry, not coming to Adelaide in the near future. Thanks for prompting a touch of a tear hearing about home base.
Julie

]]> By: John Pearce http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-11732 John Pearce Thu, 10 May 2007 13:29:36 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/melbourne-connections/#comment-11732 Hey There Graham, Now even though you have lead a self confessed "sheltered life", Geelong isn't that far out of town so I reckon a taxi ride down our way wouldn't have been to big an ask??? :) Hmmm when I am short of a teaching idea for the next day I'll obviously have to give you a Skype. Hey There Graham,

Now even though you have lead a self confessed “sheltered life”, Geelong isn’t that far out of town so I reckon a taxi ride down our way wouldn’t have been to big an ask??? :)

Hmmm when I am short of a teaching idea for the next day I’ll obviously have to give you a Skype.

]]> By: Sue Waters http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/09/melbourne-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-11731 Sue Waters Thu, 10 May 2007 11:43:09 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/melbourne-connections/#comment-11731 Great blog Graham, you write so well I could imagine sitting on that plane. I thought it was just people from Perth that don't travel much. Great blog Graham, you write so well I could imagine sitting on that plane. I thought it was just people from Perth that don’t travel much.

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