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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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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To encourage staff to use web2.0, we have started with what they may find useful, personally
What we have done:

all have opened up a http://del.icio.us account (social bookmarking)
pd sessions on resizing and maniputlating images, using www.irfanview.com
using photostory for digitalstorytelling

What we are doing:-

10 minute spot pd at each full staff meeting eg using skype, ms communicator, ipod demos, using clickview [...]

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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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 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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 Well, that day in January has finally arrived. Summer holidays are now officially over, a new school year commences in Austrlia,  staff have returned to school and students return tomorrow!
It is now time  to weave web2.0 into my Info Tech classes. So at this stage, these are my proposals for years 6-10. They are a bare [...]

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 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 [...]

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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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These are my 10 resolutions, not necessarily in order of priority for 2008. What will they be in 2009?

Keep feeding my hunger for all things web 2.0

Commence each of my students on a linked blog to mine at www.murch.globalteacher.org.au Update at least two of my blogs twice a week and

Do not start any new blogs 

Update my [...]

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