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 [...]

[Read more]

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 [...]

[Read more]

 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 [...]

[Read more]

I have experienced two more amazing events today. After spending most of last night researching cybersafety sites and collecting some wonderful reference points from my twitter colleagues re links, sites and online videos, I went to upload them onto the desktop in the lab which projects onto the datashow. However, our internet was down. A [...]

[Read more]

 Twitter has a had a large impact on my social network and personal professional development. It can be used as a social tool to keep up to date with friends, share concerns and enjoy banter or it can be an educational tool for the establishment of a social network that  shares  resources, urls and ideas. (my personal use [...]

[Read more]

Skype has opened up a whole new world – cyber and international. Skype is VOiP (Voice over internet protocol) which allows (to put very simply) two computers to ring each other like a telephone. Such calls are then free, except for the cost of the download time.
We have two sons who live in London and skype allows [...]

[Read more]

What a great day we had today! Even though we have used skype briefly with classes and a school from NZ, and our grade 5 teacher and our LOTE teacher use it,  our first big trial in the classroom for me came today when we introduced our classes to students in Korea.Each class was as [...]

[Read more]