I’ve been really busy this week and hardly had time to post anything. And I should have because some great things happened this week. I’ll get to it tomorrow, I promise.
My husband sent me this video during the week to brighten my day at school. It’s a great study in human reaction to [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 27, 2009
School’s out Friday
February 23, 2009
Special things happening….
A little while ago I was encouraging educators to join us on Working together 2 make a difference and support the bushfire relief effort. I am so pleased to let you know that some very special things are happening on that site. Our membership has grown and we have seen the service learning efforts of educators [...]
February 22, 2009
Virtually there – Learning 2.0, a Colorado conversation.
This morning, at 3.30 am, I got up to attend Karl Fisch and Bud Hunt’s Learning 2.0 – A Colorado Conversation. Was I in Colorado? No, I was sitting in my lounge chair at home, but able to participate because Karl and his organising committee had crafted a detailed wiki outlining session details and had organised [...]
February 20, 2009
School’s out Friday
Back to my faves this week. Charlie Todd’s improveverywhere crew has been up to their improvising best with this effort. High Five Escalator, involves Agent Lathan giving out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush. I just love watching peoples’ faces transform from impassive to [...]
February 18, 2009
Lovely charts – now this looks good
Lovely Charts is a new free online diagramming application that lets you create some pretty professional looking charts that would be great for use in class projects. Even better, they’d be great for use in any professional organisation; the quality is outstanding.
I’ve been having a bit of a play with the people diagrams. They look like [...]
February 17, 2009
Connections……
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Today we had a planning afternoon for our PLP group at Toorak College. It was just what we needed. Time to talk things over, show one another what we have done, teach one another some new skills and contemplate what all this means for teaching and learning. It was great. By the end [...]
February 15, 2009
Theory into practice – making it meaningful in the school library.
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This year, we’re trying to make Web 2.0 more meaningful in our School Library. Last year we moved most of our pathfinders over to wiki format to encourage collaboration and input into the development of resources to support subject areas and projects. The take up was pretty good and most people know what [...]
February 13, 2009
School’s out Friday
This is ‘Facebook Song’ by Rhett and Link. Our school psychologist had me help her download it from Youtube this week for use with a Yr 11 class. (We used kickyoutube – it continues to impress everyone) They were looking at the idea of personal empires for their Art class. As [...]
February 12, 2009
Math in the Movies -where was this when I needed it!
Maths has never been one of my strong points. I coped just fine until I hit year 9 and they started introducing letters into Maths problems. My brain couldn’t cope with this and my burgeoning career as a Astrophysicist went out the window. I had to settle for a career based on where I felt letters belonged [...]
February 11, 2009
Collective action help from our network
Our bushfire appeal on Working together 2 make a difference has received some help from unexpected quarters. Clarence Fisher and Jen Wagner, who coordinated an online effort in response to the Californian bushfires, have provided some sound advice about how to go about coordinating such an effort. Thanks go to Sheryl Nussbaum- Beach for directing them to [...]
