ejourneys

As we are pioneers in cyberspace, cybersafety is a concern that is being refined and evaluated all the time - trying to balance transparency with privacy, allowing students some freedom, yet protecting them and ensuring their safety at all times.
Students complete posts in classtime but many find it so enjoyable, they post at home keeping a [...]

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When I suggested my top ten web2.0 sites for 2007, skype was one of them. I had experienced using this software with my two sons who live in London and have since used it at school for videoconferencing purposes with NZ Chrissy and Gail Casey when she was teaching ESL in Korea. Whilst it was [...]

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It was with great dismay that I read another disappointing comment on my “Oz teachers mailing list” in Australia. A request had been made re the use of blogs in primary school education, and one of the replies is as follows:-
 I teach Early Childhood ( are there any other ECEs out there?)  and have
just been [...]

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Student Perspective

Edublogs revamped their site on the weekend, which caused a few frustrations with problems in formatting and themes. Most students have them back to their original format

Loved being able to add an avatar into the sidebar and attaching to comments

Edublogs now grabs clustr map codes as a widget option. Some great new features.

Many grade [...]

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Blogging is such powerful learning material and students should blog.
Why?………………………Here are just 20 reasons 
This post has been written as a draft for a few days, but I wish to publish it now, in support of @alupton and his wonderful minilegends. (They have been asked to remove their blog by their education department)

It is FUN! Fun!….. [...]

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From the student perspective

9/10 students worked on a post “Why is there no school on Monday?”
Grade 6 students are completing their digital story using MS Photostory on their global project “From Me to You”. Will save as email size for embedding in their blog.
Year 8 completing posts on their paintings of their house and uploading [...]

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 ”Pardon, did you say that it is a 3 1/2 hour drive away?….”
“Yes, that is the travelling time to be allowed from Melbourne to Hawkesdale by car.”
 
Hence, plans were made to change the face to face interviews we were to particpate in, to an online interview – a far more appropriate application, considering [...]

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With students….
Older students continued to add some widgets for interest, reply to any comments made on their posts, add a further post.
They were given a checklist of what I expected to see on their blog by the end of this week. (This worked well.)
Year 8s are discussing their art project on their homes and inserting [...]

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