Posted in learning environments, teaching on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I hadn’t seen the report arguing in favour or larger classes before I read Geoff Maslen’s articulate repudiation of it in the AGE:
ONLY an academic, safe in his book-lined office on La Trobe University’s green campus, could argue that class sizes in schools should be enlarged almost 50 per cent and that teachers should [...]
Posted in learning environments on Mar 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Nice to be away from work and doing some walking on the Mornington Peninsula yesterday. This little stretch of Main Creek, above Flinders, took my fancy. Put it on continual loop if you’re feeling stressed!
Posted in blogging, learning environments, podcasting, web 2.0 learning on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I spent some time tonight doing a presentation at Coburg Senior High to a group of English teachers on a Virtual Resource Centre I’ve been working on with my co-author of The EnglishBoook. The EnglishBook is a senior English resource book aimed at students undertaking their final year in the VCE, published by Cengage Learning. [...]
Posted in learning environments on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
One of the first things on the desk on day 1, a press release announcing a new school, Melbourne City School, an offshoot of Eltham College, beginning with Prep in 2009 and developing after that. Whether it will work or not, I did like some of the sentiments in the media release, including:
This school [...]
Posted in learning environments on Aug 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
We were lucky enough recently to have novelist Angela Savage working as a ‘writer in residence’ at our school for a week or so, giving some writing classes as well as working with individual students.
Angela Savage was terrific in the way she was able to work with groups of students and individuals and some [...]
Posted in learning environments, teaching, teaching strategies, web 2.0 learning on Jun 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
A teacher I met at the ICTEV Conference put me on to this video from TeacherTube. Isn’t that the best thing about those conferences?
Download: Posted by marottam at TeacherTube.com.
They say: I attended a BLC06 conference last summer and keynote Marco Torres, was a keynote. In one of his smaller sessions he showed [...]
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