by murch | Jun 6, 2009 | Blogs
Rationale for student blogs:- To give students a platform to connect, communicate and collaborate with an authentic audience that includes students, teachers, parents, local community and a global community. Blogging is a tool that allows students to make their work...
by Lois Smethurst | May 20, 2009 | Arts, Literacy, Online Resources, Web 2.0
“Tux Paint is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers around the world.” Tux Paint is an attractive drawing package for students and it runs on a variety of platforms. It is...
by kerry | Mar 31, 2009 | Blogs, Global Projects
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...
by kerry | Mar 26, 2009 | Blogs
Maybe you have numerous blogs or maybe you’re very new to it all. You can always find great blogs on the left hand margin of the Global Teacher page under ‘A+ Global School/Teacher blogs’. If you have a great blog, please email us at...
by heatherblakey | Mar 5, 2009 | Web 2.0
3/4A at North Fitzroy Primary viewed a video on bullying and this generated a great discussion. Then they looked at the UK gov site http://yp.direct.gov.uk/cyberbullying/ on cyberbullying and had another discussion centering around what technological mediums...
by kerry | Mar 5, 2009 | Online Resources, Web 2.0
Have you seen PicLits yet? It’s a lovely site for ‘inspired picture writing’. Choose an image and then drag and drop words (categorised as nouns, verbs, adjectives etc) into the space. The object is to ‘put the right words in the right place...
