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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Have a quick flick through this presentation as we in Australia shut down for the summer school holiday period. I'm reminded of a now famous quote "Yes we can" when I see this. I remember as far back as the spirit duplicator - what about you?
The presentation comes from Alan ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
I have just finished sending in my last assignment for this semester [Masters Course] and with some relief I am now able to get some of my life back and amongest other things write a bit more on my blog. My assignment was the first stage of my research project ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
I was recently directed to this open culture site which has free videos and other media that are accessible to all. They have listed the top 10 sites that have free media material for education. I looked at the Australian Screen Archive [I looked at a short clip about the file ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
This is a useful clip for those teachers or administrators wanting to start or continue a conversation about learning and what it might look like in classrooms and why - has a technical focus but still worth a look.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Thanks to Chris Betcher, a teacher I found this clip on twitter which is one of the more popular social networking tools out now. PURPOSE. PURPOSE. PURPOSE is everything. Without a purpose lets not rush into this - I'm still at blogs presenting purposeful reflection and the sharing of resources ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Tonight I stumbled upon Bill Gaskins blog which lists some tremendous sites for teachers who have interactive whiteboards. I really like the edheadsites as well as the national geographic sites - they are well worth a visit - thanks Bill
Sites
Virtual Knee Surgery: http://edheads.org/activities/knee/index.htm
Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery http://edheads.org/activities/hip/index.htm
Crash Scene Investigation: http://edheads.org/activities/crash_scene/
Weather: ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
As a principal of a school we all know about the benefits of breaking down the walls of classrooms or silos so that the teachers can learn from each other and question each other so that we build the collective professional understandings needed to improve learning outcomes for students.
So what's the ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Last week I found a site that might interest teachers of older students. Its an online dictionary that has videos uploaded from people trying to explain the word. It's interactive and encourages people to leave comments. It uses youtube so it might be blocked on some schools. http://www.wordia.com/
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
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Thanks to Liz Davis I discovered maps of the world of different data sets. This make instant and visual data that students can interpretate. A really valuable resource.
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
It's near the end of the school year here in Victoria and the pressure is on to finish the school year [student reports have been distributed, class lists finalised with the transition session tomorrow morning, the roll over of our administrative, financial and student welfare / assessment and reporting systems, ...
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