by murch | Apr 12, 2008 | Global Projects
Lesson Plan for Tue 8th April, 2008 Topic: Oceana – Australia – our culture, country, school, town, farm Length of lesson – 60 minutes Class size: 110 students, several staff members! Time of lesson: New Brunswick 8:45am, Australia 9:45pm Teachers...
by murch | Apr 3, 2008 | Blogs
“A comment a day encourages bloggers to have their say.” (A quote from one of my twitter friends.) When using online tools, the power of leaving comments when viewing other people’s work should not be overlooked. Comments can be made on blogs,...
by murch | Mar 28, 2008 | Blogs, Wellbeing
As we are pioneers in cyberspace, cybersafety is a concern that is being refined and evaluated all the time – trying to balance transparency with privacy, allowing students some freedom, yet protecting them and ensuring their safety at all times. Students...
by murch | Mar 18, 2008 | Blogs, Web 2.0
The majority of our students have set up their own blog space. A little risque as some of you might ask. After all some are only in years 4,5 and 6 and the even riskier end is year 9 and 10 teenagers. Well, so far so good. Some have tried to put images on posts, to...
by Jess | Feb 28, 2008 | Global Projects
As part of the Voices of the World project run by Sharon Tonner in Scotland, we have to complete a different task every month that focuses on using the kids voices. This month I got Grade 2/3 to lend me their voices to say numbers in English and Chinese. Here is the...
by dregan2 | Feb 28, 2008 | Arts
While working with all this technology, I realised that some technology becomes obsolete. Sometimes very quickly. I introduced the idea of an art project using and recycling materials using ‘old’ technology to the year 9/10 studio art class. While...
by murch | Feb 27, 2008 | Web 2.0
I was amazed (but thought it was great) to read Lori’s article on the top LHS of http://www.dailywriting.net/Wild%20Gardeners%20eLearning/Advent2007_Day1_WildGarden.html and to see that although Lori had been using web 2.0 for18 months it was only recently she...
by murch | Feb 27, 2008 | Web 2.0
I teach in a relatively small p12 school at Hawkesdale. This small rural town is 30 minutes drive to the nearest large shopping centre of Warrnambool, so at times we work very independently and to a certain degree, in isolation as it is expensive now to drive to...
by murch | Feb 27, 2008 | Web 2.0
If you have downloaded the freeware Irfanview, a wonderful header for a blog or an online page can be created by stitching photos together to create a panoramic image. So, if you are in irfanview, ensure that all your digial photos are the same height and preferably...
by murch | Feb 27, 2008 | Web 2.0
At school, we are using voicethread to share our interests, acitivities and other project materials with some schools in USA. The grade 3 and 4 class have been working on this project. Year 8 students have produced a photo album of our school to share with schools in...
