In my experience, teachers love free stuff. Tonight after school, my co-planning partner (Maria, the teacher next door) and I scored well on the free stuff factor. We had signed up for a free workshop for primary school teachers on Coastal Biodiversity held as part of the Geography Teacher’s Association Conference. We thought that we’d [...]
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
For anyone who may be interested, I held a Parent Evening at my school to explain our Upper Primary student blogging program and to share some information in general about using social media in primary school classrooms. The evening attracted a small number of dedicated parents and was very successful. I also had the support [...]
I’ve had this post sitting in draft form for several months now after I commented on a post from Sylvia Martinez on the concept of teachers as researchers. Sylvia’s thoughts have risen to the top again in the context of yesterday’s meeting of the four schools and university partners selected for a three year Learning [...]
I know that many are raving that diigo trumps del.icio.us with its ultra-bookmarking and extra bags of tricks. But for many teachers I work with, del.icio.us is an ideal starting spot for them in the world of social software subverted for educational purposes. It’s simple but powerful. Too many bells and whistles just scare nervous [...]
My theme for my ten minute audio at last Friday’s Learning In The 21st Century roundtable discussion was about protecting teacher innovation and how student learning can extend beyond the classroom. I managed to get myself to educationau headquarters on Fullarton Road shortly after 2 pm and got to be involved in the last two [...]
Multiliteracies –Teaching The Consumption and Production of Multimodal Texts Dr. Geoff Bull and Dr. Michelle Anstey www.ansteybull.com.au Session One Teaching The Consumption and Production of Multimodal Texts. What is a multimodal text? Goes beyond just straight print text, can be interactive, linear and non-linear. All texts have values and the reader is an active constructor [...]
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