Posted in education-news on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Oh the mixed messages. A couple of months ago I was critical here of the new draft Code of Conduct coming out of the Victorian Institute of Teaching and there I was a week or so at work arguing for it as a balanced document that represented the profession.
But does the VIT represent the profession [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Rummaging through the show bag after the ICTEV Conference, and the swathes of brochures for Electronic Whiteboards, I found one surprising inclusion; a 48 page A4 exercise book! Great old school technology and strangely aesthetically pleasing; the shiny cover and the gorgeous ruled lines. I DO have a weakness for paper, but it was odd [...]
Posted in podcasting on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
My latest podcast, Wozcast 16 is now online. It’s a discussion of the ICTEV Conference in a bit more detail including James Farmer’s keynote address on the intoxicating power of content, the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and some new tools I’ve been using, especially for mapping.
There’s more detailed notes and download [...]
Posted in teaching on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I attended the opening of an exhibition of art created by staff at my school on Friday night. It’s a night I always enjoy, and it’s always surprising and reviving to see this other side to the persona I know at school. The work was great as usual but I also took away something from [...]
Posted in education-news, teaching on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve no doubt that good teachers make a big difference, the biggest difference, in student achievement and the importance of getting to the classroom teacher as a significant agent of change is a recent epiphany for me!
However, this report from the AGE today sounds a bit like a fierce dinner conversation I had the other [...]
Posted in blogging, web 2.0 learning, wikis on May 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Lauren O’Grady from Caroline Springs School in Melbourne (ICTEV Teacher of the Year) talked about engaging middle years students.
She began by showing us the ‘What is Web 2.0′ video, which is a pretty powerful presentation on the text to hypertext transformation, (web vs us) thought it didn’t really explain the web 1 to 2 thing [...]
