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ITSC 2010 - Apple Conference
Cool to meet new peops [Lorraine on left and Belinda on right] and old buddies [Mary] love being at a geek fest!Just some random notes on the learning gathered from ITSC Auckland 2010:First up Apps on...
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Google Lit Trips
An exciting use of Google Earth within the classroom - possibilities are endless.Using Google Earth create a trip - using place markers and information descriptions using movies [use embed code],...
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Serious Mind Bender
This will freak your mind outGive it a try and work out how it was done......http://www.quizyourprofile.com/guessyournumber.swfIt's also appreciate a teacher week too check out some cool ideas to...
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World Cup fever 2010
An innovative idea to get 32 schools around the world to blog during the World Cup. All primary aged children, each class having their own country blog to maintain.A massive learning curve for some of...
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TedxAkld 2010
An inspiring day out with fellow colleagues - inspired by the stories of some amazing creative minds.By far the most inspiring was the Team OneBeep fellows - whose vision is to supply laptops to the...
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Blogging Whadda Ya Know?
I started blogging myself a year ago but have started with children in my class three years ago. The first year with year 5 and 6 children [aged 9-11 years old] did not really take off but each year...
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Avatar....NOT the Blue People.....
Creating Avatars...not the blue peeps from the hellishly long movie, but your image for use on blogs and other places on the web to show who you are.I have used a variety of Avatars over the years such...
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RSS feeders
There are heaps of RSS readers.Have tried and tested:Netvibes - a website that logs all your RSS feeds and those widgets that interest you most - draw back? You have to visit the page to see the...
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Tony Ryan - Inspirationals for Term 1....Zest practice
Today we had one of our teacher only days shared with Northcote Primary @Learning Network with Tony Ryan.Tony Ryan is an inspirational speaker in all contexts....amusing, challenging, inspiring and has...
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Having FUN with Images in blogs!
As I am a very visual person, and according to Tony Ryan [see previous post] we should use more images in education, I have opted for posting about creative use of images in blog posts.Frequently we...
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Guts and grit!
Embedding can be easy and very successful as well as encouraging to children and their learning. Our classes favourite would be Voicethread and designing their own games from Classtools. My class blog...
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Terrific Typing Apps
Here are two awesome web apps for practicing your typing skills.Typing Monster - seriously fast [ for expert typers] type the recipe, complete with punctuation as well as typing the numbers to destroy...
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To Blog or not to Blog
So to blog or not to blog?What have I discovered along the way....Inspire them - check out other class blogs together, discuss them, whats cool, whats not cool, what rocks their boat, what doesn't?...
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Patterns galore - a Geometric wonder
Amazingly fun [not exactly a photo] but beauty created with geometric lines and shapes - lots of fun and kinda therapeutic also! Discovering effects of geometric shapes and comparisons with lines and...
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Discovery Time!
Having recently attended an inspiring PD session at school about Discovery Time I am both inspired professionally to give it a whirl and also inspired to share that knowledge too.I had thought that...
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Fabulous Gadget for Posts
Add a wee gadget to ALL your posts so that CHILDREN can HEAR the post if they are having difficulty reading.One of the most lucrative gadgets I have found to add to posts that all my classes have loved...
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Class Dojo Ambassador
I was introduced to Class Dojo about a year ago. I have to say I was VERY skeptical of its usefulness and worth and didn't jump at it. However I saw how useful it was in other classes and another...
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RIC Publications review
Resource Review – R.I.C. PublicationsEnglish Skills PracticeUseful and worthwhile features: - Record sheets to monitor and encourage children’s progress - Revision questions-...
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Mindlab - Session 1 reflection on What is Knowledge & self as a Leader
Mindlab - Session 1 - Reflection & How I was a leader in the collaborative task [18/3/16 5am] An interesting session meeting the new people from the Mindlab course.What is knowledge?A great...
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Mindlab Session 2 - pre work & post thinking/problem solving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEZTyxSl3g Grant LichtmanChange is hard...it can be done but it is difficult in some schools, uncomfortable and challenging.Schools and classes need chances to make...
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