ejourneys

 
Hilda Dora Juers (nee Schurmann)
13/11/1930 to 29/03/2008
These posts have been about my ejourney with my students. However, every journey starts somewhere and mine started many years ago. It was Mum who helped mould me to make such a journey. I would like to tell you about her.
My much loved Mum died on Saturday, March 29th, [...]

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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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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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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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 Busy week this week:-
Meeting with Parents - During latter half of meeting, I was given time to  introduce wikis, student blogs, global projects and aims and goals for first semester. (Went well but I think parents were absolutely gobsmocked and I must remember that they know nothing or little about web2.0 for next time.)
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Through one of my posts on classroom20, I met a lady who had commented on my blog, named Rashkath. When I joined  twitter, it was good to see that rashkath  was a member. Rashkath, to me is rather amazing, in that she is a maths teacher from India and has wholeheartedly embraced web2.0 and blogging [...]

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 Highlight of the Week

Using skype for videoconferencing and bridgit screen share to enable Jeff Whipple, from Nashwaaksis Middle School / Devon Middle School, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada teach my students about wikis and the flat tales project using his laptop screen, from his home. (Read Jeff’s post and my post.)

From the student perspective

started receiving comments on [...]

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Having decided that I want to improve both the appearance and content of my blogs, I will try uploading a review each week, sharing some of what I have learnt with my classes, students or my growing social network. Also I will nominate a student blog , a useful website and a blog posting for the week.
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As it is now 8 months since I started using the web2.0 technologies, I was asked what I would do differently if I could turn back time. If so, what would I suggest  for newcomers.  First of all, I would not ……
……..start with trying to learn everything (as I tried to do) – wikis, blogs, nings, podcasting, [...]

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