by Andrew Williamson | Jul 22, 2009 | How To
Prezi is a non linear online presentation tool. I have found it to be really useful for presenting “How to do’s” for staff PD and students. When it first came out it was only available online which made you vulnerable to connection issues. However,...
by altan | Jul 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Can you help? A recent request came to me via email for support in formatting a wiki page. It goes something like this… “The grade ¾ team at my school (including myself) are starting to use a Wiki as a means of doing reading journals. Basically this is an...
by Paul Stewart | Jul 21, 2009 | Blogs
I was looking at the stats from one of my blogs the other day and I noticed I had some visitors from Europe, Sth America and Asia which of course was pleasing. But then it dawned on me – the blog was completely in English. Now I only know one language, so I...
by Kynan Robinson | Jul 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Over the term Andrew and I (at North Fitzroy Primary School) have been working with the level four kids devising their own compositions for mixed percussion groups The key concepts that we taught were: 1. The need for a bassline and its role – to hold the piece down...
by slav | Jul 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Victoria’s Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has released stage one of their new website. FUSE; Find, Use and Share quality Education resources is set to be revolutionary for teachers by the time it is complete by early 2010. Even now, it...
by Kathleen Morris | Jul 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you need student avatars for blogs, Voice Thread or other Internet applications and don’t want to upload photos of your students, there are a few options for creating avatars. I had my students draw a self portrait which I then photographed and uploaded...
by heatherblakey | Jul 17, 2009 | Literacy
Penguin have developed a website where children can write, illustrate (and add sounds) and publish their own stories. We Make Stories enables young writers to select a number of different story platforms and even re-write a small section of classics such as Alice in...
by Andrew Williamson | Jul 16, 2009 | Creativity, Uncategorized
This was a task set as part of our integrated topic that linked in with our English planner. Our Integrated topic titled ‘Testing The Waters’ Level 3 (grade 3&4) Term 2 2009 Integrated Planner, English Planner Term 2 2009. A Science topic that looked...
by kerry | Jul 15, 2009 | Online Resources, Web 2.0
Whether you attended the National History Teacher’s Conference on Thursday 16th July or not you might be interested in checking out this presentation on Connect – many aspects apply to all subject areas. I uploaded it to Slide Rocket in two sections as it...
by murch | Jul 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
An email from MargM (our literacy coordinator) circled our staff requesting potential sites that might be used for generating online quizzes. Here are the responses that she got:- Class tools – is a great site for creating free games and quizes. It also gives...
