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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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

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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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 ”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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I have loved looking at some blogs where the writers have been tagged for this activity. Some of the images are fabulous and I wish someone would pool them all together on one site or wiki, as it would be such a rich resource.

Swimming  the Global Waters of Web 2.0

I’ve been tagged for this meme by  [...]

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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

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