Archive for February, 2009
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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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Every meeting I attend recently at some point has conversations about the ongoing - yes that right, 2 weeks later and I still say on going - bush fires. Today was no exception at the first network principals meeting where I was party to several separate conversations of how people ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/457
Thanks to Mrs Durff's blog I found this TED talk by David Merrill from MIT who has made these small interconnected computerised blocks that enable us to explore and create. Just watch!
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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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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
No doubt many people have heard about the horrific fires that have raged over large parts of Victoria over the weekend. With a rising death toll expected to reach over 200, 700 homes lost, whole towns destroyed it certainly is the worst bushfire incident I can remember in Victoria.
I took ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
I created this wordle using my blog's main words. Its quite easy to create the picture although I had to use paint to edit the image before I could put it on my blog. Those wanting access to the site which I am sure would interest many students at school: ...
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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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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
The school leadership team in conjunction with teacher mentors have spent some time last week inducting 5 new graduate teachers into the profession and working here at Elsternwick Primary for 2009.
The first day was for graduates and their mentors and the following three days with the whole staff as we planned and ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Over the holidays I spent 3 weeks with the family at the beach, in fact two beaches Point Leo and Lorne. The slideshow in the right column has various pictures taken on the walks.
Time went quickly as it does for most people on holidays and by the fourth week, after lots of ...
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