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Halloween 2009

School resumes soon and October is the perfect time to engage in a countdown to Halloween. For five years the Soul Food Cafe, created and managed by Heather Blakey, has featured a collaborative blog where community members can post Halloween style posts using a range...

Netbooks Project

Netbooks is a blog container that has been created to contain Global Projects that are being undertaken as a part of the Victorian Government Netbook Project. In a 1-to-1 learning program, each learner has a portable, networked, digital device such as a notebook,...

Educating for Global Citizenship

Interested in participating in a Global Project and looking for something manageable? Try ‘Educating for Global Citizenship’! It’s a wiki set up to allow students and teachers from around the world to share their experience about what makes a safe...

The Teddy Bear Exchange Project

Have you joined a Global Project yet? You could try the Teddy Bear Exchange Project with iEarn like 2KM from Leopold PS. Visit their blog to read the emails they’ve shared with a school in Canada! Try these sites for other Global Projects: Oz Projects ePals...

6 Word Memoirs

Today I came across this and just loved the power and simplicity of it.  The idea is in the video below but I think it could be adapted powerfully to work with students on visual and written literacy.  The first video is from the book which started it all.  People...

Let’s skype with vegemite!

 At the end of term 2, we experienced an amazing session. It was Friday 13th, in the school library with a combined year 9/10 info class and the grade 3/4s (as  it was too wet to play sport outside). Our principal had just left on a plane for the US, but we beat her...