Blog Juice for Educational Technology

This happened a few weeks ago, but I’ve only had time to post about it now. In our school the homegroups are mixed, that is, there are a few students of each year level from year 7 to year 12 in each homegroup. This means that every homegroup is af…

Konrad Glogowski writes passionately about what student blogging achieves: “When I think of blogs, I think primarily of what this technology enables my students to accomplish. When I look forward to reading their entries and comments I am really l…

Here is a way for all edubloggers to put themselves on the map. Thanks to Josie Fraser of EdTech UK who says:

I thought I’d set up an edublog map for everyone (well, everyone covered by Google maps at the moment anyway), not just us UK & Ireland base…

Our strategy of the week idea continues. As I have posted earlier, each week the Learning and Teaching Coordinator posts a good idea for adding interest to classes that different teachers have emailed him. Today I tried one – a strategy to enhance …

A new find for me:

Tim Fredrick’s ELA (English Language Acquisition) Teaching Blog

. Have a read.

The students are beginning to think about writing their family stories. In preparation for this
I read my students a short story by S. K. Martin about family stories – Three Daughter Stories published in The Age in 1996 where the author wrote abou…

“What is it about the Australian educational system that keeps blogging from taking off as it has in the US? I’d be very interested in knowing how pedagogy and theory and real world computer access are similar to and different from the US.â€? Just …

My two writing classes have moved onto their next piece. In this one we are aiming to access the students’ memories and imagination. It is a family stories piece, and to start with they will come to school today with a story that begins with “I rem…

I am listening to a Paul Allison podcast. He is talking about how to get more people connected to technology and trying to integrate technology into the regular classroom curriculum. During the conversation he is having, he refers to Ed Tech Posse po…

This week as part of the Worldbridges live webcast we shared a conference call between Jeff in the US, Dave in Canada, Scott in Japan and me in Australia. It certainly was an interesting, if somewhat nervewracking, experience for me. We talked about …

From Danny Maas at Tilt TV (Teachers improving Learning with Technology) in his lastest vieocast come resources that can be immediately adapted for the Interactive Whiteboard. He points to this site of games templates. These games were created in Po…

This term in the writing classes we have started our next project, which is called Personal Best. This is based on the old Year Eleven Communication Project of a by-gone VCE English Study Design, but limited to writing. The students were invited to t…

Just recently I have been enjoying listening to the Worldbridges webcasts. The name is very accurate as the guys there do bridge the world in numerous ways. They are in North America (both the US and Canada) and have people skyping in from all over….