One of the greatest problems with text as a form of communication is that it can be so easily misinterpreted. Of course, one of the greatest strengths of text as a form of communication is that it can be so easily re-interpreted. In the first instance, this can be a frustrating from the writer’s perspective [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
Meet Gray Jyraffe. He’s a Noob in Second Life. He’s been hanging around Jokaydia, ISTE Island and freebie shops scavenging around trying to work out how to teleport, fly and strike up conversations with impressively physiqued and impeccably attired avatars. Gray has even been to a few events now, settling into custom bean bags and [...]
I make no secret that I really enjoy Dan Meyer’s blogging and his ideas around engaging mathematics. If I was a high school Maths teacher, I’d be rewriting my own curriculum and unit plans around many of his concepts and points of challenge. But because much of his content is based around concepts that students [...]
I’m feeling very proud of my colleagues this evening. Between my principal and I, we cooked up a sharing process based on a poster sharing session she was part of during a Teaching Australia principal’s PD program. The focus was on sharing contemporary classroom practice with a technology flavour. We designed the poster template, had [...]
Toni Glasson – Assessment for Learning – My Notes From Our Session at our Pupil Free Day Start planning with what skills, knowledge and understanding do you want your students to have, not what will we “do” in the classroom. 21st century learning is about personalisation, students are the focus, need to be able to [...]
Stephen Downes posted a couple of years ago about one of my blog posts that: …we should not be reading people, we should be reading topics. I didn’t really understand what he meant until I read this recent post from Claudia Ceraso. The whole post is an excellent explanation of where PLN building can take [...]
I think that the only thing worse than a tunnel visioned Web 2.0 evangelist is a tunnel visioned Mac enthusiast. And I say that after recent purchases of both a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. I mean, they’re both nice pieces of technology but the frothy mouthed utterings of some of my PLN would have [...]
One of the biggest challenge of my position as leader in the use of ICT in the classroom is reaching back and offering a helping hand to those who are not as confident and sure in the use of tools like laptops and IWBs in their classroom. It is easier to share with those in [...]
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