by slav | Mar 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
The School Library Association of Victoria has commenced a blog for the Readers Cup. In 2009, SLAV will be holding Readers Cup state finals for the very first time. At present, all secondary schools are invited to attend by registering their interest via this survey....
by slav | Mar 6, 2009 | Online Resources
Kerry Rowett, the Client Liaison Officer for Connect (formerly the Education Channel) has kindly agreed to be interviewed by the School Library Association of Victoria’s Bright Ideas blog. Who is behind the fantastic new Connect websites? The Connect sites are...
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...
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 heatherblakey | Feb 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
As most of you know, the Premier’s Reading Challenge commences on Monday 2 February and finishes on 31 August. To help things along, all of the Readers Cup books that have questions and answers provided (links on the right hand side of the page) that are on the PRC...
by Marie Coppolaro | Jan 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
If any teacher has ever relieved another teacher’s class, then they will have realised it is very different from having their own group of students and being well-prepared can make the day much less stressful. As a relief teacher, there is very little time for...
by Andrew Williamson | Dec 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
I love GarageBand, the students love GarageBand, we love GarageBand! Garageband part of the Apple iLife suite of software, (GB) is an incredible teaching and learning tool. We have been using GB at North Fitzroy Primary School now for the past 3 years and I have seen...
by Marie Coppolaro | Dec 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here in Australia it’s not only the end of the year but for us, the school year. Here are some fun activities for lower and middle junior students as end of year activities. Send an ecard: These are the best ones that I came across (of course there may be...
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...
