And another thing......

Arts Centre Speed Paint - student work !!!!

2011-10-27T10:26:00.001+11:00

Tomorrow

2011-10-16T18:04:00.000+11:00

Sylvia Tolisano - 70 tools in 70 minutes

2011-10-16T11:48:00.002+11:00

70 Tools 70 Minutes

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A Slideshare for change creation by Pip Cleaves

2011-10-09T20:55:00.002+11:00

Swap it, Don't Stop it!

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Dystopian world - collecting fragments for an idea

2011-08-21T21:04:00.000+10:00

I am an Infographic!

2011-07-20T09:01:00.000+10:00

Thanks to Megan Palevich for the link to this :)

The Web tools explained

2011-07-20T08:50:00.000+10:00

Web 2.0 Tools in Education: A Quick Guide by Mohamed Amin Embi

Fabbo Ipad lesson for getting teachers to use their ipads by Rob Miller

2011-07-14T22:20:00.000+10:00

IPAD_Lesson

Lots of great reasons for me to start using Voicethread again!

2011-07-14T21:38:00.000+10:00

Thanks Tom Barrett and Meagan Palevich for reminding me

Wylio - great attribution and easy peasy

2011-07-07T08:45:00.001+10:00

Why should we blog - for kids by Tania Sheko

2011-07-02T21:20:00.002+10:00

Tanya Sheko leads the search tools

2011-07-02T21:12:00.000+10:00

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcb397dn_131c9cr76fh

Holiday reading Holiday learning Gotta love It !!!

2011-07-02T17:22:00.002+10:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More education

Social Media Huh? it is now!

2011-06-25T21:48:00.000+10:00

Thanks Tom and all the other great teachers who made this!!!

2011-06-24T22:57:00.000+10:00

Here is an idea.....

2011-06-23T20:22:00.002+10:00

Yep this one again... for a reason

2011-05-29T23:19:00.000+10:00

Yes I probably have posted this before, but there is always so much new stuff that you forget the old stuff!! Sometimes my brain just can't hold it all in- hence the name of the blog!!

Photosynth Fun

2011-05-20T18:21:00.000+10:00

Digital Citizenship Presentation by Alec Couros

2011-04-15T22:52:00.000+10:00

Understanding Digital Citizenship - Middle Years Conference

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My First Prezi- Rosa Parks

2011-03-28T20:36:00.000+11:00

Getting back in the swing with Animoto.

2011-03-05T21:10:00.000+11:00

Google My Maps- helping me find a way

2011-02-20T14:57:00.000+11:00

The first few weeks have been quite fun adjusting to my old school and seeing the changes of the last year through a different point of view. So many time I have great ideas and get started with planning a task or work activity then I realise that access to computers will be a problem and also that the netbooks don't accurately work with some of my fave software. So I stop, shake my head and wonder how I can manage this. The frustration level is there but I just have to manage - knowing that there aren't going to be more computers and that this is it- a trolley of sixteen small netbooks that are slow to load and not functional with large screen programmes and twenty six kids in my class.
Thank goodness for twitter and my PLN - I am making myself keep thinking of alternate ways and Jenny Luca has posted this great suggestion about using Google My Maps.

Thanks Jenny. I feel a bit lost in the woods at the moment but this kind of great sharing and inspiration gets me out of my fog. Thanks

The world moves on

2011-02-01T20:16:00.002+11:00

A year of my not writing has now passed.I have finished my year of teaching at a fabulous private school and as the position was a one year contract one I am now back at my old state school. After 29 years of being a state government teacher, the simple fact of changing systems was a huge one for me and I feel I am still processing what it all meant and how much my views on education have changed and my understanding of what a powerful impact having a one to one computer environment can mean. Today I turned up back to school, full of conflict about what I was going to find and how I felt about being there. How do I make meaning of the changes I have gone through? How do I feel about being in a horrendously under-resourced system _ I am now teaching a total of seven classes and have five different yard duties over a cycle.How can I try to make change? certainly there is a much more positive approach to technology but the school still struggles to provide sufficient access.I am now able to write more but I just wanted to mark the changes here and to get myself thinking about what I want to bring to this equation.

Richard Byrne's New Ebook- simply stunning!!!

2010-12-22T17:08:00.000+11:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More web 2.0

Temple Grandin on Ted - autism and seeing the world through pictures

2010-11-26T22:27:00.000+11:00

Having just finished a study on the wonderful movie The Black Balloon, I was able to show my students the new TV show based on the early years of Temple Grandin. Here is her recent talk on TED. It is a timely reminder of how we have to be aware of the fact that there are many ways of seeing the world and being in it. This woman is amazing

TWEET IT - iPads vs iPhones (Michael Jackson "Beat It" spoof)

2010-10-31T13:45:00.000+11:00

A newer version of Shift Happens- an essential part of the debate

2010-10-05T23:05:00.002+11:00

Digital footprints

2010-09-10T22:29:00.002+10:00

Thanks to Jenny Luca for pointing me towards this excellent video for starting discussion about digital ethics. Thanks to Rhonda Powling for finding it too!

Digital Footprints- Your New First Impression
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We are the people we've been waiting for

2010-07-11T17:38:00.000+10:00

Thanks to Andrew Churches on his fabulous blog Educational Origami for the link to this video. How much longer will we wait? Weren't we the generation who wouldn't do it the same as our parents? What has changed?

Looking from inside the cave

2010-07-10T20:27:00.000+10:00

Avatar fun

2010-07-06T21:39:00.001+10:00

More from Michael Zimmer

2010-07-01T21:41:00.002+10:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More education

Tools for teachers

2010-07-01T21:32:00.000+10:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More 21st century

Web tools for teachers- lots of fabbo ideas

2010-06-14T12:12:00.002+10:00

http://issuu.com/anamariacult/docs/webtoolsappliedtoteaching/53

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

2010-06-14T10:05:00.000+10:00

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Prezi cool tools for year 11 class by Darcy Moore

2010-06-13T16:01:00.003+10:00

Cool Online Tools on Prezi

More quotes

2010-06-10T19:57:00.002+10:00

Ed Tech Quote Slideshow

Ipad + velcro

2010-06-09T21:35:00.002+10:00

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

For the Parents in all of us

2010-06-06T21:08:00.000+10:00

Q&A from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

Meryl Streep Rocks

2010-05-27T18:30:00.001+10:00

Social media - Stop acting like it is going to go away

2010-05-23T11:41:00.000+10:00

Field Guide For Change Agents

2010-05-21T22:34:00.001+10:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Field Guide For Change Agents

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This is what the internet can do !!!

2010-05-10T20:45:00.003+10:00

Les Posen has fun with the Ipad's possibilities

2010-04-24T21:00:00.000+10:00

Will Richardson and the Ipad

2010-04-24T18:04:00.001+10:00

Thought I would add this one as I got to play with one this weekend

Judy O'Connell - The semantic web- ACEC2010 presentation

2010-04-09T11:15:00.002+10:00

Content Used to be King: The Semantic Web in Education

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Coverit live

2010-04-07T10:47:00.000+10:00

webquests and PBL frances baker

Sylvia Tolisano - Langwitches 70 Tools in 70 Minutes- come and learn!

2010-04-06T09:17:00.000+10:00

70 Tools 70 Minutes

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My first Glog- A Bridge To Wiseman's Cove

2010-04-01T08:54:00.003+11:00

Currently exploring the potential for use of eduglogster as a tool for student expressing ideas about texts. After much fussing and a fairly rapid learning curve through many errors and some issues with the design I have produced one for use with a text.Looks good and the links work, so I should be able to get better at it now! Sorry about the problems with fitting it on here- minimising it cuts off sections so here is the link

Tutorial on Glogster

2010-03-29T18:12:00.002+11:00

Rob Zdrojewski demonstrates how to use Glogster- a Fabulous tool to make use of.

2010-03-29T18:03:00.001+11:00

Ted - Michelle Obama on Education

2010-03-29T17:44:00.002+11:00

Gotta Be There!

2010-03-29T12:30:00.000+11:00

http://acec2010.info/

Temple Grandin Ted Talk

2010-03-25T21:52:00.002+11:00

Kate and Anna shave for leukemia fund raising

2010-03-25T18:07:00.002+11:00

Ways to use Wallwisher- Thanks to Tom Barratt

2010-03-24T22:31:00.000+11:00

Ways to use flips - with thanks to Richard Byrne - Free Technology for Teachers

2010-03-24T21:29:00.000+11:00

Fantastique

2010-03-20T16:10:00.002+11:00

J.K.Rowling and failure

2010-02-13T09:37:00.001+11:00

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Leaping in....

2010-01-27T20:55:00.001+11:00

The new year has begun and I have been busy trying to get my head around a whole new school - its systems, its physical environs, its priorities and a very large staff. The impressions I have from changing systems are reassuring- schools are schools- they face the same dilemmas, the same physical issues and the same need to re-energise and redirect staff to bring their focus to the task of doing the absolute best they can for their students. I have been in two days of orientation for new staff and then in sessions with the main body of the staff and they have been extremely well organised and very detailed, such a contast to what my past has been.
The biggest difference that has struck me apart from the obvious ones of better physical resources like swimming pools and lovely concert halls is that with a student body of 2200 prep to yr12 they have a staff of 835 - 356 of whom are teachers - the rest are support staff. I don't have to do yard duty and my allotment means no extras.
What every teacher in the state system would say they would like to have happen to allow them to do a better job of what they took up the profession to do, would be get rid of yard duty and extras and have more help on the admin duties. Is there any possibility that a school system that really serves our students best is not an unattainable pie in the sky? Sure the private system has problems, but this school has shown that with sufficient funds and the will to focus on the teaching, things can be better for teachers and as a result the kids get a better experience for the short time that we have to show them the possibilities of the world.
My education continues.

My Bright and Shiny VITTA Evening

2009-11-29T14:42:00.002+11:00

Yes I was totally surprised and I want to thank Jo McLeay for doing such a wizard job of getting to the VITTA conference dinner thinking I would see all my NECC pals and then having her get up and make a speech about me. What a fantastic and memorable way to finish off what has been a very up and down year. I have only a few days to go in my old job in the state system and after 29 years in the same school, I am definitely leaving with a whole lot of mixed emotions and I will miss my dear friends and hard working government teachers who struggle so hard against huge odds to do a wonderful job for kids.

But as this blog is a large testament to, my view on schooling has changed so much that I cannot sit and wait for things and people to catch up with the changes anymore and I am taking my plans and dreams and heading off into the sunset - or as many have said going across to the dark side. I am so excited about next year and I hope that my expectations are not unrealistic and that I can meet the school's expectations too.

So, thankyou so much Jo and VITTA for the award, and Upwey for allowing me to grow and explore all this new and challenging frontier in education. What a way to finish one chapter in my life !

Cartoons and Comic Life

2009-11-06T21:30:00.005+11:00

Tap Into The World Of Comics

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It seems my life has been all about Comic Life recently This is a video that has been made to help teachers who are training to use netbooks and are wondering how to use Comic life Thanks to a very easy session with Russ Blackwell who filmed the session with my class working beautifully behind me

Comic Life in the English teacher's classroom from Rusty Gates on Vimeo.

I also gave a presentation at the second EMUG meeting on the 29th October at Mooroolbark SC about Comic Life and the work my class was doing while the film was being shot was shown as examples. Great fun and I hope it has some impact for kids in classes as it is a wonderful tool. If you are interested in learning more about Comic life, Deb hicks has created this stunning wiki and Russ Blackwell is developing a great repository of ideas and training films on this wiki I will try and put some of the kids work on here too.

My friend Julie also was filmed on the day talking about Comic Life and how she has been using it in LOTE classrooms and here is her movie.

Emug No2

2009-11-04T22:32:00.001+11:00

Great Quotes about Teaching - a Flickr Group Slideshow

2009-09-24T21:08:00.000+10:00

Techy tips for non techy teachers and even techy ones too!!

2009-09-23T09:37:00.004+10:00

Just discovered this great site created by Mark Warner who I met in America last year. It is called Ideas to Inspire and it is full of great ideas and resource suggestions . This slideshow is fabulous - well worth taking a look. Well done Mark!!!

Unnamed 09/04/2009

2009-09-04T22:30:00.001+10:00

Teaching Resources | Media Education Lab
tags: aup, medialiteracy
Teaching Literature: Lord of the Flies vs. The Hunger Games
tags: literature, Hungergames, Lordoftheflies, reading, comparison, YA_lierature
Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule
Photojojo's PhotoTimeCapsule Setup the Time Capsule with your email & Flickr account. (60 seconds, tops) Twice a month, enjoy an email with your photos from a year ago.
tags: flickr, photos, photography, photojojo, timecapsule, nostalgia, web
Home (GoogleApps ePortfolios)
tags: e-portfolio, google, portfolios
10 free tools to help you create online presentations - Teaching, Learning, Information Technology Tools
Good list of tools for creating presentations.
tags: tools, presentations, lists, eci831tools, eci831
Get Going with Google Apps In Your School by Lisa Nielsen
tags: google, googleapps
100 Essential Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers
tags: web2.0, resources, technology, top100
10 Great Classroom Icebreakers
10 Great Classroom Icebreakers
tags: icebreakers

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Emug, iphones and Ulearn

2009-08-23T20:26:00.001+10:00

Life moves on sometimes slowly, sometimes imperceptibly and then you stop and consider and things have happened which should be noted. Emug has begun - we had our first meeting last Thursday at Ringwood North Primary School and Mark Richardson and Deb Hicks from the western Macschoolsnet group came along to give their blessing and their advice for our fledgling and help us get started. For a group that sent out ning invites by twitter and a fairly small number of channels we now have 107 members for the ning and we had thirty people turn up for our first meeting. It was lovely to have such a good start and Adam Brice has done a superb job in getting the ning on the go and organising the meeting.

The recent storms took their toll as a tree fell on our cubby- a place that was a favourite play area for our girls when they were growing up. In a moment it was gone as the earth heaved and a beautiful old tree fell and crushed it completely - the cleanup will take a while .

I have finally been able to upgrade to an iphone and I am having such fun learning how to use it and make the most of this amazing little device. It is incredible- video, camera and voice recording plus apps plus a phone - I am loving the apps and how many more productivity tools I can make use of...

As the term draws to an end the number of conference flyers coming to me has increased, but the one I am most interested in is Ulearn in Christchurch in New Zealand in October. I have applied for a study scholarship from the school council and am hoping to have the opportunity to visit all my tweetbuddies over there and see some of the great ideas they are working on.

Unnamed 08/10/2009

2009-08-10T22:30:00.001+10:00

Look who finished! | Moreau Learning Web 2.0
tags: no_tag

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Unnamed 08/02/2009

2009-08-02T22:30:00.001+10:00

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PLP final reflection

2009-08-02T17:07:00.001+10:00

The excitement of being involved in the PLP project was enormous for me at the start of the year. I had been blogging and connecting with other educators for 18 months and had established the OZ/NZ Educators network. The online meetings and the Bloggers Feasts were all part of developing a community of like minded educators who could talk freely about their exploration of Web 2.0. The opportunity to give a formal title to what I was doing and to allow some fellow staff who were starting to share the interest the chance to learn and develop a PLN was fantastic and so we started off with a team of five. The first session was like oxygen for me but for others it was confusing and perhaps overwhelming.
Within a week one overcommitted staff member had basically backed out and another was in danger of losing her contract position and so had to withdraw from the group and concentrate on her core teaching. So five had become three and our third member was only able to be involved at a minimal level due to a number of family issues. The remaining two came from one faculty area was good because we had a similar focus , but it was also a problem as we didn't have the spread we had in the original group.
Issue one- make sure the group is broadly based and fully committed to ensure a more successful result across the whole range of subject areas.Try and have at least five people in the team who want to be challenging themselves and who can speak to a number of faculties.

Pam and I blogged, discussed and planned a number of projects together and tried to include other staff in our activities with varying degrees of success. Marie-Josee started blogging in her classes and really moved into web 2.0 with enormous enthusiasm. We created wikis for our Year 11 classes on a number of texts, we used Inspiration for mind mapping and started discussion forums for our students.
As the year began we were in the middle of a $4 million refurbishment of the school which caused major disruption to all areas of the school and did not end until just before the mid year break. This in itself did not create a climate for learning new skills as teachers struggled to get a basic teaching space and to have available resources to teach as all of the school was affected and staff lost their teaching resources as they were boxed up to be moved around the school. Not a great environment to ask people to undertake more change when they are already struggling to cope.
As well as the physical environment being radically changed, the school has had a major upgrade of the school computer network and this has had a number of problems which made many staff very disheartened and cynical about what they could possibly do with computers in classes. Despite a climate of more funding by the Federal Government for funding of better ICT access for all students, we are still yet to see any effect of this money in the school. Many teaching areas have been left with poor or no access or very outdated computers as we wait for the new machines to arrive and as this is taking so long staff morale is extremely low and this affected our ability to create a sense of enthusiasm among teachers. Thses issues are still current.
Issue 2 Be realistic about how much change is possible in the life of a school.

Raising the profile of the project was difficult in the huge number of other changes happening in the school at the moment. VIT registration changes, the current agreement which changes peoples ability to attend ISE the need for accreitation and curriculum changes have made it difficult for us to get meeting time in the formal compulsory sessions- so we ran our own Sandpit sessions on a non meeting day and worked that way - usually with a small group. As the time for us to report came near we finally were allowed a session with the whole staff and we presented the ning to those who attended and some videos to start discussion. We filmed this session and have plans to keep getting people to see it as a real and active resource centre for their own use.
Issue 3 Patience, Patience Patience

It is only through 1 to 1 conversations by team members that things have been happening. I am so frustrated by the process so much of the time and then suddenly people are asking me about some app or activity. Displaying work of students helps create interest and targetting particular faculties and change instigators in faculties has been good. So yes I have moved down a path that has no going back. Yes I have gained some new people skills . Yes I will keep going and 'Yes the PLN I have acquired in the last two years has changed everything' and I mean everything!! I have now organised two groups - one for networking teachers in Australia and New Zealand and a local one for Mac users in my region. I am out there making connections and doing just what I want my students to do. Thanks PLP
Reflecting on Powerful Learning - International Cohort for PLP (2 August 2009)
http://internationalplp.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reflecting-on-powerful
http://snipurl.com/oivvu

We also produces a blog as part of our final presentation which contains all the digital objects we created in the period of the project

http://uhsplp2009.globalteacher.org.au/

Certainly seeing all the blogs and wikis and nings we created as part of the project I feel that we have achieved some things but I still have some concerns and I do want to express them .

The programme is a fantastic idea- creating cohorts within schools and having them recognised as doing something important is an essential part of raising the profile of 21st century education. Linking them to an international programme is a really powerful tool for change- getting teachers to connect beyond their staffroom is fabulous. Sheryl and Will's work has been beyond reproach- they have been supportive and inspiring - something which must require a huge personal effort to hear the same conversations over and over and to be still enthusiastic and engaged. I am not in any way trying to criticise their work. My concerns are about a broader issue.

My school received a grant of $15,000 to be part of the programme. That is a huge amount for a grant, but I have only heard once from the department regarding how we have gone with the project and that was at the very start. No-one has spoken to me about our presentation or what did- or didn't happen with in the school as described above. Surely this can't be correct?
All the other school except one sponsored by SLAV were private schools with far fewer funding issues than us- including funding of internet access. The connections were interesting- but we constantly felt like the very poor and under resourced country cousins.We didn't get time or much real support for what we were supposed to do and a bit of follow up and department weight would have helped to get some attention paid.

My next nagging thought is 'Why did we need to pay $15,000 to have two American leaders tell us what we knew needed to be done anyway? Why did we need people from the US to get this rolling? Are we so unsure of ourselves that we needed Will and Sheryl to get us going on change? Why could we get $15,00 for us to attend two meetings f2f and several online ones when I could have bought 15 desperately needed Macs for my year 8 centre? I still can't get the funding for them despite showing with the five I got last year what could be done with them.
Another nagging thought what is the result of all this money- what will come of the project? Were we a trial? Why hasn't it been followed up? Although we are sighing with relief that we got the presentation done- what happens next? I know it is up to us as a school to keep it growing and I know that will happen, but I wonder if the other teams have discussed post project plans.
On a final note, it was faintly amusing that as we got ourselves set up on Wednesday for the meeting and showcase we found that the departments chosen meeting platform Elluminate was blocked at school and we had to pack everything up and rush around to Pam's house and do the presentation there and then sit and listen to the voices of teams from three other schools do exactly the same thing! Yep there is still some distance to go..

Time for a second look

2009-07-18T10:25:00.003+10:00

Following a post by Adam Brice at Skoolz Out I took a second look at Simply box . In the constant onslaught of new apps and variations of new apps - it is easy to say this is too hard I will stick to what I am doing, but after watching the video and reading the post i am going to give this a try with my Year 8 class that is studying the topic of Refugees. Simply Box seems to have so many ways to teach social book marking in such an accessible way. Sure I still love delicious and Diigo, but this has more power in terms of selective capture and the use of visual prompts rather than just text. I am sure the kids will love it.

Adam has also written about Shelfari and I am going to get my students to construct a Shelfari of their fave books on their blogs for all of us to read what they like.

Thanks Adam for your timely posts. I have seen these tools before many times but your posts have made me rethink my attitude to these and I am looking forward to trying them out. If you go to Adam's blog make sure you check out his new book all about Digital storytelling and the work he has done with primary school students on film making- it is absolutely fabulous!!

Unnamed 07/12/2009

2009-07-12T22:30:00.001+10:00

Asylum seekers' nationality not yet known - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
tags: refugees

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Unnamed 07/06/2009

2009-07-06T22:30:00.001+10:00

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Blooms Digital Taxonomy - the video

2009-07-05T18:32:00.002+10:00

Thanks to Andrew Churches from Educational Origami for posting this video by Kellie - I think it is great - a good starting point for lots of discussions especially about blogging!

NECC one year on.

2009-07-01T10:23:00.003+10:00

One year one from my ACCE tour to NECC and I stop to look at how my world has changed. I spend so much more of my life online but I am also feeling more connected to people in a broader sense. Fellow bloggers are at NECC in Washington or watching from afar like me. I am trying to stay awake at night to catch sessions online and I am missing the social magic that came from meeting people whose work I so admire face to face. It only lasted four days but I still think about it all so much.Other bloggers are travelling the world and I keep connected by their blogs and tweets.

At the moment I am dithering around being a presenter- still so terrified of the gaps in my knowledge, but wanting to move on to the next level. I have just picked up the green chromakey and a stand from the post ofice and have organised lights and a spare computer so we can have the TV station actually working in the Year 8 centre.
I applied for a secondment position as an Innovator Trainer at the Ed Dept two weeks ago and actually got an interview, but not the job. I applied for another emerging Tech grant for using Ipod Touches in class and didn't get that either, but that is ok cos we did get one last year. I am still working on how to complete our PLP project with only three of us to work on it- this one is tricky but I will keep at it. I have requested being released from a two period class so as to do some regular coaching in others classes. I am trying- I am seeing ways into moving things forward and I am wishing I was over there for another drink of the Cool- Aid!!

The plan for the Year 8 Centre is to run the Murder Mystery unit as a cross curricular one in english, sose , maths and science. I will use the resources we have built up plus the ideas from the Sleuth English festival I ran as part of what happens. Incursions, dress up days and across the centre displays will be all part of what we do. Maybe a Detective TV edition?
This is a catch up ramble here and my thoughts are racing across a number of subjects and classes, so I apologise to any reader but that is how it feels in my head at the moment. I am organising two bloggers feasts - one for Judy O'Connell who pens the amazing Hey Jude blog and one for Julie Lindsay who is a co founder of the Flat Classroom project.

I am exploring podcasting with my classes and movie making as we finally get some access to the macbooks I got a year ago but haven't been able to use this year.The slidecast above is about Mahara - New Zealand free product that is directed towards use as a digital portfolio platform so I will be researching this one. I am trying to train myself to use ILife09 and IWork 09 properly and be able to teach and use them effectively. Adam Brice and I are hoping to set up EMUG an eastern region Mac users group and I just love the name and the possibilities. Off to a meeting about planning a conference now- yep life has definitely changed and I am loving it!

Unnamed 06/28/2009

2009-06-28T22:27:00.001+10:00

http://tineye.com/
tags: searchengine, image

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More web 2.0 tools

2009-06-15T22:26:00.001+10:00

Web 2.0 Tools to Inspire

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Nuf said

2009-06-13T16:58:00.001+10:00

Visual representations of Web 2.0

2009-06-09T20:31:00.000+10:00

Visual Definitions of Web 2.0

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My own QR code

2009-06-01T14:00:00.001+10:00

Capzle

2009-05-24T21:37:00.000+10:00

Unnamed 05/21/2009

2009-05-21T22:28:00.001+10:00

YouTubeSnips
tags: no_tag

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How our kids are using the internet

2009-05-20T18:32:00.000+10:00

How Our Kids Are Using the Internet in 2009

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Room 18 needs a teacher

2009-05-19T21:29:00.001+10:00

Room 18 needs a teacher
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What Tools Do you Use?

2009-05-19T19:56:00.002+10:00

Jane Hart has created her newest collection of tools for 20th century teachers . Which tools do you use? Thanks jane for all your great work . The twitter list is still growing and full of lots of interesting tweeties.

25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009

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Curious incident wordle

2009-05-18T14:19:00.001+10:00

Unnamed 05/11/2009

2009-05-11T22:28:00.001+10:00

TaLe - skoools out
tags: math, science
Creative Problem Solving with SCAMPER
SCAMPER is a general-purpose checklist with idea-spurring questions — which is both easy to use and surprisingly powerful.
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Long Time Gone

2009-05-03T18:55:00.003+10:00

Hello blog! This is just a short hello to let you know I still think of you and have often pondered whether my thoughts are worthy of a post. I haven't written for a long time for a number of reasons: laziness perhaps is the first- so many other things have moved up the list that demand my time. The terrible fires and summer we have had in Victoria have distracted me and made me feel that most of what I would say would be so trite and trivial that is is best not said so I tweet and try and keep up with what has become at times a deafening torrent where once it was just a river that I loved.Frustration has been another thing that has made me hold back. After the excitement of the last year - to be sitting at school dealing with a half speed network and a staff that is not remotely interested listening- if I was given time to speak to them because they are so frustrated with our new network and the continual issues of kids with no money for internet.

The same dull and hopeless things that were stopping change have not moved at all- but I have and for such a long time my thought have been governed by the idea that it is best not to write negatively on my blog. Well, I am feeling so tired of trying- I don't know how people who have been trying to create change have managed to keep going for so long- I am such a woos for getting down after such a short time. The PLP project we are doing is stuck in this dreadful inertia - we need the staff to do the Epotential test online and hardly any have done it. We have started a wiki for staff training but no time slots have been allocated to the team during staff training sessions.Therefore we are not going to have a project that is adequate ready for presentation in time. What can be done? Life keeps crowding my focus and it seems so hard to find a way in for change. Sorry blog - had to rant somewhere hope my next post is more positive!

2009-04-09T22:22:00.000+10:00