by creativesoulsconverse | Mar 4, 2009 | Blogs
Blogging is not for everyone, but for me it has been a professional and personal life saver. I live in a tiny town away from the luxury of regular large writing groups, poetry readings, dear artistic and writing friends, my family – and blogging has become a way of...
by Marie Coppolaro | Nov 26, 2008 | Web 2.0
Like most people who write a blog, there is never enough time to write about all the wonderful and interesting tools that are constantly evolving. To keep this post manageable, I’m mentioning a few of the fabulous tools that I have come across in the past...
by dbeever | Oct 28, 2008 | Web 2.0
Doncaster Secondary College have made a commitment to blogging as a means to engage students. This semester they have devoted six full days to skilling staff with the view to engaging students in 2009. As a part of the process many queries have been made. Dianne...
by jah63 | Oct 15, 2008 | Blogs, How To
Fodey is a quick and effective way for students to make content for their blogs in a fun and engaging manner! Students can choose from a range of characters and add speech to demonstrate learning. I use it to gain feedback from students. For example I may ask them to...
by brittgow | Sep 30, 2008 | Web 2.0
My action research project with the Knowledge Bank: New Generation Collaborative Learning and Research Project is about social networking and maths and science learning in the middle years. First, what is social networking? My own definition would include sites that...
by Lauren O Grady | Aug 12, 2008 | Blogs, Global Projects
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...
