One of the first inquiry units we have on the planner for 2009 is called ”Myself As A Learner”. All classes are meant to be exploring this theme in the first fortnight and as part of our professional tuning in we had a couple of staff members run us through a “Learning Preferences” survey which [...]
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Thought I’d put some of my contributions to one of the PLP Nings up on my blog as it is worth cataloging here for future reference. Discussion in my blogging forum / early January. It took me a couple of years before I was sure enough about blogging as a vehicle for learning in my [...]
Whilst flicking from one task to another I’ve been checking out some of the “Videos We Like” on Vimeo. I didn’t know much about Vimeo until Dan Meyer did his dy/av series and hosted his awesome summer series (during our wintertime) there in mid 2008. He’s pointed to a few since then and I find [...]
This could be interpreted in any number of ways. Eric Hews is one of my favourite new web finds from over the holiday break.
Well, we’ve started back at school this week and I have to admit, everything feels like a continuation from last year and across the state, the basic way school gets done will be pretty much the same way it’s been done for quite a while now. The changes at our school are subtle and not [...]
Found this article in the local paper today about an Adelaide phenomenon (although probably not restricted to my city) where parents of school age children are positioning themselves for access to zoned (read popular) public schools by purchasing or renting housing within the school zones. As noted in the comments, the post reads a bit [...]
I’ve really enjoyed this holiday break, spending as much time as possible with my wife and sons. We’ve been to the beach, seen some movies, bought icecream, played board games, shopped for DS game bargains and the time has just been a fantastic time out after the intensity of the 2008 school year. But six [...]
… if Web 1.0 was about translating the pre-digital world into digital while maintaining familiar structures and formats… …and Web 2.0 is about flattening the playing field, allowing anyone with a connection to become author, critic, friend, artist, entrepeneur, journalist, inventor or creator … …then it seems that Web 3.0 might be when the powers [...]
Joanne and I had a rare afternoon going to see a movie down at Glenelg without the kids for our fifteenth wedding anniversary. One of the simple pleasures was just having a wander around the bookstores in Jetty Road without the worry or pressure of the boys – just browsing and checking out exactly what [...]
When ken rodoff launched his Edublogs Awards bid, he established his campaign site using a platform that I had not come across before – Weebly. It is actually an extremely popular blogging platform with over one million users already. (I can hear readers thinking out loud, “He’s only found out about Weebly now!?”) Anyway, I [...]
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