ejourneys

Below is a slideshare set up from a powerpoint presentation, for a local teachers conference held at Deakin University, in Warrnambool. Our experience has shown that staff need to start with something that could be useful in their own personal lives, experiment with it and use it, and from their they can start to see [...]

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 Collatorationnation collaborates with our nation
Students from CT, USA…..please meet  students from Hawkesdale, Australia. And so it was, that 14 students from their homes in the USA at 8:45pm logged onto the computers, whilst 12 students from Hawkesdale College continued on with their IT lesson or came in during recess time, to get to know their US [...]

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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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 This weeks’ tasks include(d):-
 Blogging
The majority of our students have now applied for their own blogging space. Each student in Info Tech classes from years 4-10 will have their own blog and full rights as administrator. However, I will be an administrator as well, in case there are any problems. They have all been linked to my [...]

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Holidays – A time 2.0 catch the Web
Summer holidays –students and staff can’t wait for them each year and now they are finally here! It has been a time to catch up with all types of things but particularly time to look further into web 2.0 and associated tools. This year, I have been granted [...]

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Well!!! Today, grades 5 and 6 were combined. So, when they all came into the computer lab, I did not even have enough computers for them all. So, some had to share a desktop which doesn’t work very well. Our teaching and learning leading teacher had helped us set up a basic ict survey for [...]

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Below is a show pertaining to our school yard. It shows what wonderful country school grounds we have.
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Cant wait until the schools in America and Canada return to school. I have now enlisted in some exciting gsn projects for each of my year levels. One of the most interesting challenges for me is the [...]

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