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Communicate and Collaborate

Kerrie has been blogging at Education.au, leading the way since September 2006. She has been raising issues and generating discussion about Australian Education. She is passionate about online communities and their ability to connect people and assist them in their...

Emotions and Smiley Mania

Okay, if you want eye-candy for your blogs and email… here’s some html code for smilies. You could use smiley code purely for visual effect or as a code/decode activity. Perhaps you could use it directly as a web page development module. The options could...

FUSE

Hi Bloggers, Here’s a heads up… Have you ever heard of F U S E ?? FUSE is an acronym for Find – Use – and Share excellent Educational resources. FUSE is a web site developed by Knowledge Bank: Next Generation (of the Victorian Department of...

Breaking the Cycle

Have you checked out the Breaking the Cycle project yet? Kate Leeming has now been cycling across Africa since last October. The trip will continue until July this year. You can view Kate’s blog posts (including some new videos!) and join the Breaking the Cycle...

Teaching Students to Comment on Blogs

I am currently in the process of introducing my Grade Two students to blogging. Our 2KM class blog is proving to be very popular with students and families. As I have previously blogged about, I like to follow these steps when introducing blogging to my students. This...

Green Tips

30 Go Green Tips for Teachers to Introduce to the Classroom Global warming and environmental concerns have stood as hot, controversial issues for decades. Regardless of one’s political views, most people at their core at least agree that the Earth deserves fair,...

Online sticky notes

When sticky notes came in, it made organization a lot easier. Notes could be written and stuck on desks, books, calendars  reminding people of all the things that had to be done. These would include telephone messages taken by admin staff etc. Now online tools  offer ...

Great new features on the Global Sites

Edublogs campus sites (which are what Global Teacher and Global Student are) have had an upgrade! There are a number of new features to check out. The content of this post has been taken from the Edublogger blog with permission. Thanks 🙂 Add New Users This is a nice...

Live Writer

Live Writer is a great program to introduce students to Web 2.0 technology without having to be ‘online’. It is good practice to store important information on your computer and Live Writer helps you to do that. One application might be for travellers who...

A Funky Maths Blog

If you are a Maths Teacher looking for ideas to use with your classes, or if you are checking out to see how you could establish a funky Maths blog then go no further than Maths Pig.