Aug

21

We Think

August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Aug

21

Aaarrgghh - it’s the test!

August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

After returning from an invigorating trip to Singapore and the International Conference on Teaching and Learning (iCTLT 08), I faced the reality of … THE EXAMS. I love learning, and the talking and thinking that grows from spending time with other people who love learning is really powerful. The conference focused on how we, [...]

Aug

20

Authentic Assessment + web 2.0

August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

iCTLT Authentic Assessment
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: teaching pedagogy)

We presented a paper at the iCTLT 08 Conference in Singapore this month on authentic assessment and web 2 tools. The presentation went really well and it was great to talk about the exciting and challenging aspects of experimenting with new forms of learning [...]

Jun

14

Learning to Change - Changing to Learn

June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

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Dec

3

Blogs in Plain English

December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

From Lee Lefever at Common Craft

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Nov

27

Edublogs awards ‘07

November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

I’ve been too busy to blog anything thoughtful lately as I try to tame the beastly workload that comes at the end of the school year, so I was really chuffed to be shortlisted for the 2007 Edublogs Awards for best new blog. There are some fantastic writers/teachers/thinkers who are using the read/write web to [...]

Nov

21

Beating bullying on Youtube

November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Nov

19

Multiple Intelligences Wiki

November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Just found this Digital Arts for Multiple Intelligences wiki by Clay Burell, via Watson Common.
There is a MI questionnaire, along with a range of activities “to see which “Digital Arts” might be most enjoyable for you to explore in iLife and Web 2.0“.
As I expected, I fall mostly in the linguistic, intrapersonal intelligence and am [...]

Nov

19

Why Hitler lost the war…

November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

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Nov

18

Free rice

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Via Geography and all that jazz, is FreeRice, a vocab game that donates (through site advertising) 10 grams of free rice through the UN for each word you get correct. According to the about page, FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com and has donated 2,457,120,420 grams of rice [...]

Nov

18

Go Green at Edutopia

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Edutopia has created a Go Green Database to help students, teachers, administrators, and environmental activists
“integrate knowledge and awareness of Earth’s fragility into classwork and community service, carefully blending concern with action to help kids feel engaged and hopeful.” There are Curriculum, Field Trip, Information/Statistics, Lesson Plans, Online Tool, Service Learning Projects, Resource List categories on [...]

Nov

18

Panaromio - your favourite places

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Panaramio is a mash-up of Google Maps and geopositioned photos. You can add photos from your favourite place that, if approved, will appear in Google Earth. There are now 2.5 million photographs in Google Earth submitted by people from around the world. Cool site that could also be great for use in Geography classes.

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Nov

18

WWI Blog

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier is a blog “made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written. To find out Harry’s fate, follow the blog!”
 

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Nov

17

readability?!#?

November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments

Not sure what this means really, but according to the Blog Readibility test:

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Nov

12

Can Leopard change my spots?

November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I registered tonight to attend Apple’s ITSC ‘07 , which is in Sydney, Australia on December 10-14. I was browsing through the conference timetable and featured speakers - and the conference looks very cool. I’m looking forward to exploring the capabilities of the new OS Leopard. Being in an Apple 1:1 school, I’m keen to [...]

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