Literacy workshop – Murray Gadd
We had a Teacher Only day on Friday with Murray Gadd facilitating. He’s been in and out all year working on literacy with us. I started up an Etherpad window and two of us (with occasional input from...
View ArticleBlocked websites, drama and connectiveness oh my
Today started off with lots of drama. I went to school early knowing I needed to finish up last night’s work in rearranging the classroom. Just as well as I discovered that the ethernet cable I laid...
View ArticleeLearning + Classroom2.0
After reading some blog posts and wiki information about ‘inspired’ classrooms I decided that I wanted to try moving my computers away from the wall and into the middle of the classroom and base each...
View ArticleInspirational Teachers
It’s not the technology in our classrooms it’s the passion and vision we have. This via Justine (Rt:@NZChrissy RT:@Shareski Via @ujdmc)
View ArticleNational Standards
There’s a lot of talk happening about National Standards – probably more people are talking about them than about anything else introduced over the last few years. We’ve been working with Murray Gadd...
View ArticleThey say a change is as good as a holiday …
I’m not really sure who they are but I suspect they are sort of right. I guess it depends on what we do with the change or even how we approach it but if we do it right it’s great. The change for me is...
View ArticleDigital Art
I am not an artist – at least I’m not a graphic artist (although I am a musician!). Sometimes as a teacher it’s hard to inspire your students in an area you are personally weak in – like art for me....
View ArticleEDM310 Students
Over the course of this year this blog has been visited by students from Dr John Strange’s EDM 310 class. When the first student commented here I was amazed that my blog was chosen. I don’t see my blog...
View ArticleShowMe
I don’t often rave about apps but this one is definitely ‘rave-able’! Craig posted yesterday about using this app in his classroom so I thought I’d download it and show it to my class today. Well –...
View ArticleCollaborative teaching in a traditional environment – EDTalk
Collaborative teaching in a traditional environment from EDtalks on Vimeo.
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