Posted in teaching strategies, web 2.0 learning on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
I was pointed to an interesting post this week, an interview with award winning primary school teacher, Tim Thompson, on how he uses technology such as podcasts, blogs and video in his classroom. I liked the following observation particularly; a key thing for teachers I think, is to continue to play with these technologies. And [...]
Posted in blogging, web 2.0 learning on Mar 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Just coincidence? Or something darker that I read today of two edublogs being closed down by the institution where the teachers works. In his blog Teaching Generation Z, Graham Wegner pointed out Al Upton and the minLegends 08 which currently reads:
Order for Closure
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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 tools and gadgets, web 2.0 learning on Mar 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’d probably tag this new site under ‘collaboration’ or file sharing. drop.io allows you to very simply create private sites for sharing of all kinds of files. I can see a lot of education potential for this kind of thing with groups of students, or whole classes, able to contribute to a file-set on a [...]
Posted in e-learning, tools and gadgets, web 2.0 learning on Feb 19th, 2008 5 Comments »
Ning is an interesting concept; a build your own social networking site that lets you plug a whole lot of gadgets and widgets to create your own mini facebook or myspace for a group you organise. I’m not sure of the security and whether it would work in a school, but it seems to be [...]
Posted in blogging, web 2.0 learning on Nov 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Some things old and familiar, some things unexpected and new; the edublogs awards always have something of interest.
If you’re up to your neck writing reports, correcting exams, sitting in planning meetings or reviewing your course, then bookmark the site and revisit it over the summer holidays and see how some educators are embracing the blogging [...]
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