I’m not going to be one of those people who gets all defensive about the biggest perk we have in our profession. Classroom teachers are lucky – the holidays we get are much more than most workers get and in my case with a young family and a wife who is also a teacher, the [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2010
I enjoy Lisa Neilsen’s blog but worry when I read words like this: There is less tolerance for educators who do not believe it is their responsibility to move their teaching out of the past. Those stuck in the past… those who are not developing their own personal learning networks… those not taking ownership for [...]
I am now into my sixth year of writing here on this blog. I don’t write here as often as I would like but it still gets me writing much more often than I did pre-2005. I think the last time I wrote as much was back in teacher’s college. My lecturer, Mem Fox, got [...]
I’ve been scouring YouTube for documentaries to be part of our current inquiry unit for the classroom “What Are You Listening To?” One of the key understandings is Music is an industry and in that search I’ve been watching a number of promising clips from the Classic Albums television series (which aired on SBS here [...]
I was in a Year 1/2 classroom this morning working with a teacher new to our school. The kids had netbooks out and the teacher wrote up some website addresses on the whiteboard with interactive content about the Water Cycle that she wanted the students to visit and use. Being seven and eight year olds, [...]
Unfortunately, I chose a seat right in the centre of the semi-circle of chairs directly opposite the three Ghanaian drummers who were about to lead our session on TeamBeat. I could feel the hot flush of embarrassment as we were invited to grab a personal drum for the session. My stomach knotted, I felt the [...]
My posting here is threatening to fall off the wagon so I’ll just post a few random notes here about things I’ve been noting of late. New Buildings Our new library and classroom block are now open for business. We will start moving the students into their new surrounds throughout this week in a staggered [...]
Dear Tim, Angelita, Megan, Matt, Sherine and Alexa, During the last month you guys have all dropped me flattering emails, telling me how much you love Open Educator and how this is one of the greatest edtech blogs going around. It’s nice when readers reach out to make contact and I’ve done the same myself [...]
Our new BER funded library and classrooms are nearly ready. It has been interesting and exciting to watch them be built, then painted and furbished and go from shells and frameworks to spaces that you can visualise in action. So, there has been quite a bit of talk around learning spaces and re-imagining how we [...]
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