Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I’ve spent a number of miserable minutes today reflecting on what went wrong with the year eights in class today. I have been so used to this class being engaged and collaborative, willingly sharing ideas and opinions without too much shouting ove…

Even though I’ve read Will Richardson’s book
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms at least once, I just picked it up again to dip into, and found this thoughtful idea which is probably obvious, but something I haven’t y…

We are looking to choose some new texts to study in Year 12 next year. The teachers are all frantically reading the texts on the list to make suitable choices and we are having a film night at school to look at a couple of films together and discuss …

It is a Year 12 English class and the text is The Wife of Martin Guerre. The stakes are high, exams are just weeks away and we really have to get this essay writing under our belts. We have to be confident and fearless in our approach to the text and t…

Last night I went along to the Melbourne International Film Festival at the Regent Theatre to watch Al Gore’s compelling slide show on global warming made into a documentary by Davis Guggenheim. It is, as Gore says “a moral issue”, and the film…

Found this via … well I just don’t know. Somewhere in my feeds was the pointer to this little gem. “The Audience is up to Something” is a great video by Peter Hirshberg of Technorati, and Michel Markman that has been uploaded to YouTube by Mi…

Via Brian at
Bump on the Blog
, just couldn’t resist this.

I was talking to a colleague of mine who has a fifteen year old son. The son wants to participate in MSN chatrooms like all his friends do, but my colleague wants to keep him safe. He likens the son’s proposed participation in MSN to letting him go to…

Got up this morning and logged into my Bloglines (how I love RSS). I found two fantastic posts from Jo Kay and Vicki Davis. Jo Kay writes about her blog and what tools she has on it and why. Vicki Davis speaks about the fallout of the Deleting Online…

There’s been a bit going on lately that’s making me reflect about my work as a teacher. It’s interesting for me to note that some of the teachers that I respect a lot are proponents of the idea that the teacher is in the classroom to teach and …

I love first person stories of teachers learning things and I just love this post by The Fraudulent Teacher. She doesn’t write much but when she does it’s always worth reading. She talks about her “revolution” in thinking about alternatives to reams o…

Just wanted to let you know of some

new student blogs

: part of a combined year nine and ten class who are doing the Recreating the Writer unit in 2006. Not all of them have started writing yet, but a few have and some of you fabulous bloggers mig…

I just feel I have to write again about a burgeoning community over at Educationbridges: Teachers collaborating with teachers. I joined the community a week or so ago and I have watched it grow and transmute over the days. It’s a bit like watching a …