As I’m off work for half term I can finally take stock on how this year has been developing. To say we’re only six week’s in to the year I’ve already achieved a lot with regards to my professional ‘ILT’ life.…
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Loading...I am gearing up to introduce blogging to my Grade 6-9 students. I have attended two ETMOOC sessions with Sue Waters, have read some of Sue’s blogs about blogging with students, have scheduled in time to attend another archived ETMOOC on the same topic this week.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I have deliberately chosen the word feedforward as opposed to feedback as a focus for my work with struggling readers and writers in my English First Peoples 10 class. One of the key learning outcomes at this grade is to be able to make connections through writing—a task my students find difficult. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Having been mega busy over the last few weeks I’ve neglected the blog and missed last weeks notes. Therefore this week’s note is a round up of the last two weeks.
So here it goes:
Held a small focus group for the study skills project
Re-organised a focus group with engineering and sixth form for the above project
Held a progress meeting for the study skills project where we further tweaked the layout to make it more user friendly
Admitted defeat and put the ‘Careers TV’ project on hold.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The last month has been a whirlwind of becoming connected using technology. Prior to January, the only social media/online media I was connected to was Gmail, Google Reader, Facebook, Skype and Pinterest. Now, I have added Twitter, Diigo, Educreations, ETMOOC, Goggle +, Google hangout, LinkedIn and this additional blog.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I received an email from MENTOR today announcing that photos, videos and workshop presentations are now available at this link.
I’ve been working on a final recap expressing some of my observations. I wrote here and here showing some of the people I met and comments I heard.…
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I had a great time connecting with folks from #etmooc – I especially enjoyed the synchronous blackboard sessions. Having never participated in an interactive online classroom before, it was a surreal experience to watch a presenters respond in real time to what I, a faceless student, scrawled on the blackboard slides.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As part of etmooc we are encouraged to use a variety of Storytelling tools. I’ve spent a fair bit of time over the last couple of days animating gifs but though it was time to step out of my comfort zone.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...For this section of the #ETMOOC, we’ve been focusing on Digital Stories and have had some excellent presentations and opportunities to practice and learn this fascinating art. I’ve been really enjoying the #sixwordstories and the Five-Card-Flickr stories that everyone has been sharing, as well as the animated GIFs that have started appearing around the #etmooc Google Plus Community.…
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