I have a feeling that I’ve been tagged for these sort of things before. But newer edubloggers can’t be expected to wade through my archives and my longer term readers don’t want a re-hash, so I’ll have to dig deep for the latest 7 Things Meme. Thanks, Tony! 1. I’ve switched allegiance three times in [...]
Monthly Archive for December, 2008
It was my privilege to have Tom Barrett along with his wife Helen and his family over for a meal at the Wegner household tonight. It was a really nice time chatting about life in general (not that much geeky talk at all) and letting the kids play with each other. These connections we make [...]
I’m not a religious person but I do appreciate the extra time at this time of year to relax and read for my own interest and priorities at my own pace, rather than squeezing it in at the end of the day after work, kids, responsibilities, preparation for work and just before sleep. So I’ve [...]
I’ve been accused of being an Edublogs fanboy and to some extent I am. I’ve always plugged this place as the place for educators and students to be blogging and that hasn’t changed one bit. But I have to say that the news about the insertion of random advertising into my blog, my class blog [...]
Here in South Australia, if you teach in a government school, you have 41 weeks of active teaching duty for the calendar year. Well, it was until about ten years ago when the state government decided to bring our system in line with the eastern state public systems by dispensing with the 41st week. The [...]
Perhaps it’s because my sinuses are playing up and my sleep patterns have not been the best. But I’m finding that I have less and less patience with teachers who’ve been given opportunities with school supplied laptops, IWBs, data projectors, PD sessions, hand holding, screenshot handouts – and all they can do is tell me [...]
There’s one week left with one of the best classes that I’ve taught in my twenty plus years of teaching before the 2008 school year is done and dusted. We are trying to tidy up incomplete work, organise our end of year celebrations and wind up any other unfinished business. This is as good a [...]
Heard about lifestreaming? Via the super savvy Chris Harvey over on the TALO list: …blogging is not necessarily dying, but is becoming an inadequate paradigm to keep up with all the data that the average internet consumer now produces. Lifestreams are the way to keep up with it all. Yongfook has his own open source [...]
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