This past week, two of our district’s high schools administered a District-created Performance Task. The task consisted of a classroom activity one day, and the following day, a self-guided time of research, curating/synthesizing information, and writing a position paper on a topic that was relevant to our local community.…
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Loading...Our Inquiry and RE units this term have focussed on the concepts of community and our place within the community. It has been a rich and diverse unit and we are now at the stage of expressing our learnings about what community is and how it can be built.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As part of the planning team for the RE Eastern Network, we spent quite some time last week talking about the place of dialogue in Religious Education. Our first discussion was about what constituted dialogue. We talked about what dialogue IS and what it IS NOT.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Storybird (www.storybird.com) is a great website which enables you to select from an extensive range of beautiful images to create your own story. You can search for images by themes and then arrange them in order to tell your own narrative. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Have just had fun sitting in the hairdresser’s chair, creating a 5 card flicr story.
Enjoy!
a #etmooc story created by Mj0401Mary
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This week, my students have pondered the question ‘My learning is like a fish because…’ and have come up with some amazing thoughts and ideas.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Our current topic in ETMOOC is Digital storytelling. It is the beginning of the school year in Australia and I wanted to get an essential agreement in place with my new 5/6 students. To engage them in the process, I created an animation using GOANIMATE.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...What I know about ocean currents can be summarized in one short sentence, “When being pulled away from shore, swim sideways.”
The ocean is a big beautiful and frightening place. When I saw the image below I instantly recognized it from middle school earth science class.…
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One week in. Into WHAT, you ask? Why, #etmooc, of course! Officially, this amazing “connectivist” MOOC, (massive open online course), hasn’t even REALLY begun – it’s been an “orientation” week, of sorts.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Hi everyone! This is just a QUICK post to say that I have MOVED! I am now using a PRO Edublog account … and I LOVE it! The problems I encountered with embedding my Introductory Animoto for #ETMOOC exist NO more!…
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