by slav | Nov 23, 2009 | Web 2.0
Michele Berner, English teacher and e-learning coach and Katherin Grelis, Teacher Librarian at Rowville Secondary College have developed a winning way with Web 2.0. As joint winners of this year’s SLAV/Connect Web 2.0 competition, Michele and Katherin have...
by Andrew Williamson | Nov 7, 2009 | Creativity, Digital Stories, Literacy
This was a fantastic unit one of my favourites for 2009. Our grade 4 students enjoyed it too. The ICT skills needed to complete these were extensive. At least four different pieces of software were used. Safari (HeroFactory), Comiclife, iphoto, Garageband, and iTunes....
by kerry | Oct 28, 2009 | Blogs, Class Activities
One of the great things about the Global Teacher and Global Student blogs are the opportunities they offer for sharing fantastic practice. We’ve collated some great posts on the ‘What can I do?’ page in Global Teacher. Many teachers want to know more...
by Kathleen Morris | Oct 26, 2009 | Web 2.0
Read Write Think is a site from the UK that offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the P-12 classroom. While this site includes lesson plans and web resources, I have found the most useful aspect of the site to be the Student...
by murch | Oct 11, 2009 | Blogs
This week is global handwashing week. Global handwashing day is on October 15th. My students will be writing a post on this global event and answering these questions as a post:- Why would there be a global handwashing day? What purpose would it have? Write about good...
by slav | Sep 29, 2009 | Online Resources, Web 2.0
Tagul is a resource similar to Wordle. However, Tagul allows users to sign up, save Taguls and embed them into webpages. Gorgeous tag clouds Here is some information from the Tagul website: Tagul is different …Wordle clouds cannot be used as in the way tag...
by heatherblakey | Sep 25, 2009 | Global Projects
School resumes soon and October is the perfect time to engage in a countdown to Halloween. For five years the Soul Food Cafe, created and managed by Heather Blakey, has featured a collaborative blog where community members can post Halloween style posts using a range...
by murch | Aug 30, 2009 | Blogs
Blogging@Lunch As I do not teach in the primary school at Hawkesdale P12 College, this year, and as we have been involved in a number of projects with the ICT classes that I do teach, our dedicated blogging class time has been greatly reduced this year. Access to...
by Kathleen Morris | Aug 28, 2009 | Blogs
Here are some quick tips to get the most out of your class blog that I have learnt through working with my class on the 2KM Blog. Leave a comment if there are any other good tips that I have forgotten! Encourage parents to be involved in the blog and leave comments....
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...
