by slav | Mar 28, 2009 | Web Quests
Last year Mooroolbark College teachers Jodie Tilley and Pennie White developed a wonderful WebQuest. This WebQuest was an award winner in the Education Channel (now Connect) and SLAV WebQuests and Beyond 2008 competition. Schoolyard Blitz! home Jodie explains how...
by kerry | Mar 26, 2009 | Blogs
Maybe you have numerous blogs or maybe you’re very new to it all. You can always find great blogs on the left hand margin of the Global Teacher page under ‘A+ Global School/Teacher blogs’. If you have a great blog, please email us at...
by slav | Mar 16, 2009 | Web Quests
At the end of 2008, Julie Squires and Mark Phillips from Casey Grammar School were awarded the then Education Channel’s (now Connect) ‘Webquest of the Year Award’ for their Webquest “Earth 2.0 Headquarters – Is it possible to create a...
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 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...
by dbeever | Oct 28, 2008 | Web 2.0
Doncaster Secondary College have made a commitment to blogging as a means to engage students. This semester they have devoted six full days to skilling staff with the view to engaging students in 2009. As a part of the process many queries have been made. Dianne...
by jah63 | Oct 15, 2008 | Blogs, How To
Fodey is a quick and effective way for students to make content for their blogs in a fun and engaging manner! Students can choose from a range of characters and add speech to demonstrate learning. I use it to gain feedback from students. For example I may ask them to...
