Posted in teaching on Dec 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, the students have gone and the workmen have already moved in to renovate the courtyard and start the summer refurbishment program. The chairs are all stacked up and my Year 11 English room has been stripped of any vestiges of its 2007 identity.
It’s a funny feeling, this end of the year thing. Having said [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets on Dec 13th, 2007 No Comments »
One of may favourite eudbloggers, Graham Wegner, has been blogging about notebook computers recently in his blog Teaching Generation Z.
He talks about the $800 ACER notebook computers he’s been using and how effective they’ve been. It linked with an interesting post from AGE tech writer Charles Wright today about the new EEE computer [...]
Posted in software, tools and gadgets on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I see that the Windows Live Writer is out of beta and into full implementation. This is a blog writing tool. You set up your blog or blogs and then writer the entry in Windows Live Writer and publish it to your site, or multiple sites.
It IS nice to type your blog into [...]
Posted in tablet_pcs, tools and gadgets on Dec 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Funny how you can be using a tool in the classroom, which was startling and new and fresh a couple of years ago, but then over time just becomes somehow normal and unremarkable. I suppose that’s what good tools do; become part of good practice. So I was in some meetings this week planning [...]
