by heatherblakey | Oct 5, 2008 | Web Quests
Each year the School Library Association of Victoria and the Victorian Education Channel celebrate WebQuests created by Victorian teachers through the WebQuest of the Year event. This year the competition has been expanded to incorporate web 2.0 tools and renamed...
by brittgow | Sep 30, 2008 | Web 2.0
My action research project with the Knowledge Bank: New Generation Collaborative Learning and Research Project is about social networking and maths and science learning in the middle years. First, what is social networking? My own definition would include sites that...
by murch | Aug 30, 2008 | Online Resources
Grade 2 students at Hawkesdale p12 College were asked to draw their favourite Olympic games Sport. Next they used a voicethread to explain why it was their favourite sport. Other schools may participate and add to this activity. Instructions on using...
by Lauren O Grady | Aug 12, 2008 | Blogs, Global Projects
Today I came across this and just loved the power and simplicity of it. The idea is in the video below but I think it could be adapted powerfully to work with students on visual and written literacy. The first video is from the book which started it all. People...
by heatherblakey | Jul 31, 2008 | Arts
by heatherblakey | Jul 31, 2008 | Blogs
We have all been in a situation where we pretend we know what people are talking about, even though we have no idea. Being both a parent and a teacher at my school, I didn’t want to show my ignorance amongst a group of parents as they talked about their blogs. It...
by brittgow | Jul 13, 2008 | Web 2.0
I created this symbolic shield at Scion crest generator after blog-surfing and stumbling onto Tom Woodward and Jim Coe’s site, Bionic teaching. Last year, the year 9’s drew their own symbolic crests using symbols from books and the internet. You could try to create...
by jah63 | Jul 3, 2008 | Online Resources, Web 2.0
I have discovered a vibrant, safe online learning environment for school children called Superclubsplus. This supervised utility is huge in the UK and Europe and is now gaining recognition in Australia. Currently it is free for schools to sign up their students for...
by Tamara Carpenter | Jul 3, 2008 | Web 2.0
SIGN UP FOR THE CONFERENCE NOW! The Knowledge Bank online conference this year is focused on Web 2.0 in education: what it is, how it’s being used today and its potential to radically change education. Topic: Learning in a changing world – Web 2.0 and beyond...
by murch | Jun 18, 2008 | Global Projects
At the end of term 2, we experienced an amazing session. It was Friday 13th, in the school library with a combined year 9/10 info class and the grade 3/4s (as it was too wet to play sport outside). Our principal had just left on a plane for the US, but we beat her...
