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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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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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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 ”A comment a day encourages bloggers to have their say.” (A quote from one of my twitter friends.)

 When using online tools, the power of leaving comments when viewing other people’s work should not be overlooked. Comments can be made on blogs, podcasts at www.podomatic.com, teacher tube etc and even be added to some vokis and voicethreads.
Comments [...]

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As we are pioneers in cyberspace, cybersafety is a concern that is being refined and evaluated all the time - trying to balance transparency with privacy, allowing students some freedom, yet protecting them and ensuring their safety at all times.
Students complete posts in classtime but many find it so enjoyable, they post at home keeping a [...]

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It was with great dismay that I read another disappointing comment on my “Oz teachers mailing list” in Australia. A request had been made re the use of blogs in primary school education, and one of the replies is as follows:-
 I teach Early Childhood ( are there any other ECEs out there?)  and have
just been [...]

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Blogging is such powerful learning material and students should blog.
Why?………………………Here are just 20 reasons 
This post has been written as a draft for a few days, but I wish to publish it now, in support of @alupton and his wonderful minilegends. (They have been asked to remove their blog by their education department)

It is FUN! Fun!….. [...]

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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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 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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