After school, Wednesday, in our staff meeting time, I finally stepped up and talked about the idea of Sharing using digital tools for the first time. I mean it’s not the first time I’ve talked about using Delicious or any other social media tool, but it is the first time I’ve couched the whole thing [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2010
A few weeks ago, the State treasurer, Kevin Foley, revealed the 2011 State budget wielding a tempered axe according to many analysts. Every Government department has had to do some belt tightening, including Education. Following the dismantlement of our educational technology flagship Technology School Of The Future, the Learning Technologies section of DECS retreated to [...]
This is a graph created by our two Year Seven classes as part of our inquiry unit “What Are You Listening To?” The graph was the result of an exercise that asked the students the question “How do songs get onto your playlist?” Before the results came in, my offsider Kim and I hypothesized that [...]
This week’s maths focus was planned to be on time zones and I sat there on Sunday evening looking around for some web resources to help convey those concepts to my Year Seven class. For some reason, as I stared at the time zone map from worldtimezone.com, my mind wandered back to a conversation I’d [...]
(This post is written with my parent hat on after enjoying two weeks of time with my family.) I’ve seen this slogan before on kids’ t-shirts but for some reason, the kid wearing it on the playground down at our local shopping precinct stuck in my mind. It’s funny that at times, my wife and [...]
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