Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Blog Might Be Stagnant But I’m In The Twitter Elite

This could be further proof that my blogging muse is still out somewhere wandering around the Nullarbor but a tweet yesterday from Josie Fraser led me to Twitter Grader. It seems that according to this particular service I’m the current number three of the Adelaide Twitter Elite! You get this nifty badge as well. This [...]

My Edublog Awards Nominations

I don’t have candidates for all of the categories in the 2008 Edublog Awards and the ones I do want to nominate are all voices I think need more attention paid to them even if they may not be obvious to some of my readers. (Except for Dan Meyer – he gets more attention than [...]

Tales Of Two Fridays

Last Friday. Ann, my principal and I attended a DECS Learning Technologies Project meeting with our partner schools with the goals of updating each site’s progress and making plans for the next stages. This is part of a joint three year project exploring the role that technology can play in schools and progressive learning programs. [...]

Paper.Still.Useful.

I still read Will Richardson every time he posts but I find going onto his blog to comment a somewhat disheartening affair. It seems every time I have something to say on a topic on his mind, a swarm of other commenters descend and say everything I was going to say and then some more. [...]

The Cadbury Gorilla Remix

My youngest son loves this commercial at the moment. So, I hunted it up on YouTube a few weeks back to show him using the keywords “cadbury gorilla” and besides finding out that it was a British ad that was over a year old, more than several enterprising individuals had remixed the drumming gorilla in [...]

No Internet, No Problem… Well, Maybe Not For You

My mobile went off mid-afternoon in the classroom on Tuesday and instead of ignoring it as I usually do when teaching, I decided to see who would be calling me at this time of day. It happened to be Jane, an Assistant Principal from another local school. I had planned a launch with her of [...]

Thanks For Your Generosity

My students’ blogs have experienced a flurry of comment activity since we returned from camp last week, with generous support from educators from all around the world. This has meant a real learning curve for my class in terms of being more diligent about checking for feedback, learning to be clearer in their own writing [...]