Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Sometimes I stumble upon really creative ways to use technology in classrooms with kids. Chris Betcher prepared this for an online conference and it goes for about 20 minutes. There's so much in this presentation that it's useful to come back to again and again. Chris explains RSS feeds, news ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Photo courtesy of Bayside leader
At the end of a school year I generally get a little reflective - after a day or two on holidays that is and after I've spent some time catching up on the uncompleted tasks - which I just have.
Well my first reflection is that the ...
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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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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Certainly one of the by products of an effective school transition program we hoped was the easing of parent concerns about the student class placement for the following year. An earlier post on school transition described the program that we have implemented. In February at the start of the new school ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
I've been following one dad's dilemma about allowing his 12 yo daughter to use facebook. For those interested in this please click on the link below
Dave Sherman
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