by heatherblakey | Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
One fo the first challenges when you establish a blog is to change the default blog and make it your own by adding widgets and altering the custom header. Custom Headers are changed under APPEARANCE. Check out these unbelievable WordPress headers for inspirations and...
by Kathleen Morris | Aug 13, 2009 | Web 2.0
Most teachers are probably familiar with the Bloom’s Taxonomy model which details the six levels of thinking from lower to higher level thinking (remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating, creating). Mike Fisher, an American instructional coach...
by kerry | Aug 12, 2009 | Web 2.0
Are you doing some wonderful work connecting students using web 2.0 applications in your classroom … or keen to start? You might be interested in entering the Connect and SLAV web 2.0 competition 2009. What do you need to do? Work in a team to create a unit of...
by Marie Coppolaro | Aug 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t come across Spezify, check it out. Spezify is a really neat search tool which acts intuitively by collecting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways. This is a great tool for classroom use instead of a list of links and...
by Marie Coppolaro | Aug 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Working with a group of year 10 students, I found that many of them had no idea what to do when they left school. I thought it would be really helpful for them to identify their strengths, likes, dislikes, personality traits and so on to determine what kind of career...
by slav | Jul 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
KnowledgeBank is hosting a free eLearning Conference for interested Victorian teachers. It will be held from Monday 3 August to Wednesday 5 August through the online conferencing program Elluminate. Here are details of individual sessions from KnowledgeBank: Monday 3...
by Lois Smethurst | Jul 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m sure a number of teachers still wonder why they should consider starting a blog. I spent some time working through the considerable amount information that Will Richardson presents in just the first twelve minutes of “Here Comes Learning” the...
by slav | Jul 30, 2009 | LOTE
Here is a handy tool for LOTE teachers and anyone else wanting to communicate in languages other than English. Google Translate can do three great things: Enter a phrase in your selected language for search in another language Add a widget to your webpage to allow it...
by Andrew Williamson | Jul 25, 2009 | Blogs, How To, Web 2.0
Stumbled across this great blog post about Creative Commons in a Australian Education context via an Ed Tech Crew podcast. Some excellent information about where to find Creative Commons Licensed materials and how to use them. This is very handy especially when your...
by slav | Jul 22, 2009 | Online Resources
Power League is an interesting concept. It provides free access to its site which is based on the idea of leagues. Leagues are forums or discussions about particular topics; students can discuss, question, debate and even vote. If a league is not suitable or...
