Monthly Archive for May, 2007

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Jay McTighe – UbD Notes

Website – Jay McTighe, Workshop Resources. Started by showing us a selection of doctored images titled “When Graphic Artists Get Bored.” The goal is to create a curriculum design using the UbD Template using teams of 2/3 colleagues. Stated that using the design is enhanced by working in groups. Once the designs are completed , [...]

Reflective Connection

I haven’t had much time for any reflective writing of late although I’ve written a few comments on various blogs that deserve some further exploration in my own space. It all ties back to this idea I’ve been toying with in terms of attracting more teachers to be part of online conversation and sharing their [...]

SurveyMonkey And Mobile Phones

It’s getting late and I have a more substantial post in the pipeline but I can’t let the week end without a reference to my class’s use of SurveyMonkey this week as part of our Maths program. The topic was collecting and analysing data and we had just starting contemplating what our peer review of [...]

Leigh’s Skype Birthday Event

Skype is pretty cool – I love the way it can tell you how many members of your skypable community are online. I actually like the chat function because then you can multitask (badly, in my case) but tonight I just discovered a new feature. It tells you when someone has a birthday! So, happy [...]