ejourneys

As I am a member of www.projectsbyjen.ning.com, a recent discussion by @kimcofino re a request to list student blogs allowed me to meet Paul Bogush (@shaggyhill). He was looking for student bloggers to work with his students at Collaboration Nation. We had just set ours up, so I volunteered my year 9 and 10 group [...]

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My blog as a newspaper
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 I would like to sincerely thank @MrKp for ‘walking’ me through this interesting adaptation for blog posts. From @MrKp’s capable instructions, I have converted the last 6 week’s postings for my blog into newspaper pdf format. Check it out.

Copy rss feed from you own blog 

 Join www.feedjournal.com

Delete old rss feeds on there

Then [...]

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Teachers should never under-estimate the ability of students. As all grade 6 students now have individual blogs, the ‘baby steps’ of introducing blogging are now showing fruit, with the grade 6 teacher Marg Murnane   commencing a personal blog . With Heather Blakey’s help , a techno6 class blog is now ‘work in progress’. The class was asked what they would [...]

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Jess McCulloch  and I have 20 days teacher professional leave in 2008, to look at ‘laying the eplanks for a virtual classroom. Today, we used one of those days for reflection, planning and builiding up our resources. Now that blogging has become established amongst our students, we looked at getting staff on board web2.0
Lengthy discussion [...]

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In our goal, with the support of our school leadership and teaching and learning team, to ‘lay the eplanks for a virtual classroom’, we are looking at the following elements of the conceptual age:-

connectivity
creativity
communicate

After speaking withTrish Butters, our current prep teacher, Trish was of the opinion (and I tend to agree with her), that there is little [...]

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To encourage staff to use web2.0, we have started with what they may find useful, personally
What we have done:

all have opened up a http://del.icio.us account (social bookmarking)
pd sessions on resizing and maniputlating images, using www.irfanview.com
using photostory for digitalstorytelling

What we are doing:-

10 minute spot pd at each full staff meeting eg using skype, ms communicator, ipod demos, using clickview [...]

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Interested teachers from Australia and NZ who follow twitter, met for the second time last Sun evening. The first meeting was very informal and last night’s session was hosted by Simon Brown or @skytrystjoy. @sujokat started us all off and it is a great way to make connections and share and discuss various issues. First JoeDale from the Isle [...]

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When I was recently asked to write an article on safety, one of the questions was whether students felt safe using the web2.0 tools. So, I asked Grade 6 students a question on whether they felt safe blogging. (Students have had a class blog for 8 months and individual blogs for 2 months)
Here are some [...]

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Our school day with students finished after period 4, lunchtime. All students went home on the bus and after lunch, parents were invited to come in to our school and speak with teachers. This can be a challenging and testing time and often the parents you would really like to speak to, do not make the effort [...]

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The student in the image  asked me a question on the content of  my lesson. However, she was not really my student. She was one of Chad Ball’s students from New Brunswick in Canada and was part of a 100 strong class of Canadian students seated in their school lecture theatre, listening to me, speak about Australia, our [...]

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