Over the summer holidays I’d been pondering how to improve my Mathematics program using inspiration, ideas and resources from Dan Meyer’s blog. I wanted to harness the potential of my classroom interactive whiteboard to the engagement and purpose of digital materials presented using some of the effective information design principles that Dan so passionately espouses. [...]
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Dan’s not so sure that self nomination is the way to do it. Identifying what makes a blog worthwhile to recommend to others, that is. Tom Woodward‘s comments further down on that post are really worth a read though. This idea is probably way too subjective to push into too deeply. But it ties neatly [...]
I think the Kiwis are doing a lot of things right for teachers. They know how to get the focus right in a number of ways. They don’t use technology titles for their conferences. They use great names like ULearn and Learning@School. They give regular classroom teachers the opportunity to step out of the classroom [...]
I’ve been keen on the idea of a Digg style site that can be customised for a classroom since last year but the demise of CrispyNews put paid to that avenue. But I’m been using another site, CoRank, to build something similar for this year and it looks promising. I haven’t seen much in the [...]
Well, after one week back in the classroom it sort of feels like I’ve never been away. Same room, similar year level and even nine of the same students as 2007. But I’m determined that my classroom practice this year will continue to evolve and change, blending the best practice of my work colleagues along [...]
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