Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Looking Out Through The Foggy Windows Of My Edublogs Glasshouse

Published on January 31, 2008 in Blogging. 9 Comments

Maybe I’m just stupid. (Highly likely.) But I just can’t see what Judy and Miguel think they see. Let’s see. Edublogs has a new online magazine and somehow that’s not transparent because Lorelle is the new editor and James hasn’t been all up front and people with Edublogs blogs now are going to get extra [...]

A Class Logo – A Small Part Of Building My Class Identity

Published on January 25, 2008 in Middle Schooling. 7 Comments

I’ve been interested in the ideas behind logos and design for a while now without any formal reading or training in this area. How to create something that is visually pleasing (to my eyes at least) has fascinated me and playing around using tools like Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop Elements has had me [...]

Listen To Doug And Me On Teachers Teaching Teachers

Published on January 22, 2008 in Information Literacy, Problem Based Learning and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

Thanks to an invitation from Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim, Doug Noon and I were guests on the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast last week to discuss our global project, Spin The Globe, that we have worked on with our respective classes. It was great to chat and hear Doug’s voice at length after working with [...]

Switching Between Big and Small Picture Perspective

Published on January 19, 2008 in Future Directions. 2 Comments

One really useful benefit of being plugged into my personally customised edublogosphere network is being able to read and think about the really ”big picture” perspective of education and learning. I read about the very real issues that this system called school throws at the people who choose to be part of it (the teachers [...]

The Old ICT Folder

Published on January 16, 2008 in Resources. 5 Comments

Holidays are a good time to potter around and do some cleaning and tidying up. When I left my previous school I put all of my paper teaching resources into a series of white three ring folders. I had one for English, one for Maths, one for Health and so on. Some have been used [...]

An Excuse To Try Out Kwout

Published on January 14, 2008 in Blogging. 3 Comments

I wanted to try the new cut’n’display tool kwout since learning about it on Jane’s ELearning Pick Of The Day, and this was the perfect excuse. I don’t know much about these awards but it seems I did a bit better here than in the Eddies!! I did mention this one on Twitter but wasn’t [...]

Annual Report Entry – grahamwegner’s year of numbers

Published on January 10, 2008 in Information Literacy. 5 Comments

Some people enjoy reading books. Others like to kick back and watch TV or play video games. Me? I’m weird. I like going online and reading other people’s stuff. I also like mucking around in Photoshop and creating inane things like logos and cartoons. So, it’s probably no surprise that I would “have a go” [...]

Comments, Comments, Comments

Published on January 5, 2008 in Blogging. 14 Comments

I’ve been on a recent commenting spree over a number of blogs since my last post. It got me wondering about the relationship between my posts and the comments I’ve had over the two and half years I’ve been writing here. Comments outnumber posts by about 2.5 : 1. Recently, I went through the comments [...]