Posted in Uncategorized, tools and gadgets on Jul 20th, 2008 No Comments »
A little while ago I was in a meeting of Year 12 English teachers, discussing how the course is going, and planning for next year. One thing that got agreement from everyone was that we needed to improve the way we distributed newspaper articles to students for the language analysis task.
In essence, what we did [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, conferences on Oct 18th, 2007 No Comments »
VITTA have got their act together. They’ve gone from being the home of the rarefied world of IT teachers, Excel spreadsheets and working smarter in Access databases to incorporating the World Wide Web 2.0. In much the same way as librarians have cast of their dowdy image and remodelled themselves information knowledge constructors, VITTA [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2007 No Comments »
One application I love is OneNote; a new(ish) addition to the Microsoft Office suite and one that gets as much use from me as Word. I’ve tried things like EverNote, but for keeping notes, jottings, ideas, images etc. it’s pretty hard to beat and the 2007 version is another improvement.
One thing I like is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Lots of talk in education circles recently about the fairly recent discoveries going on in brain research, how the brain works being translated into how people learn and unlearn, and some scientists (though not many yet) looking to what this might mean for how we teach.
One article this week, looks at the ‘gender’ of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
The new Avatar feature of the edublogs posed some confronting problems. What picture should I post of me? Something casual; strolling along a beach contemplating the universe, or at work posing at a whiteboard or hovering around the edge of a group of students? Or what about a comic look: a unicorn, or a martian [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, blogging, web 2.0 learning on May 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
The ICTEV session today opened with a keynote address from James Farmer (edublogs inventor) where he talked about our intoxication with content, and our binge-media approach.
I thought edublogs was Australian only but with 75,000 blogs and growing by about 1000 a week I guess not. James showed the audience some gee-whiz tools coming out of [...]
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