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Teacher eTalk: June 2008
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Teaching kids to read is not that hard. Most of my pupils have learned to decode. And read with fluency. And some can even entertain you with wonderful expression. Teaching them to read with comprehension. However, is a different matter. At our school we found that a great number of children tested very low on understanding of reading material. We used AsTTle. Assessment tests, and an alarming 84% of my pupils were unable to infer or make connections! I remember using it as a ch...
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Teacher eTalk: May 2008
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Friday, May 23, 2008. I've just gate-crashed a Voicethread! I feel a bit guilty for joining in the conversation uninvited, but it was just so interesting, and so real to my teaching, that I couldn't resist joining in! Serves you guys right for making it public! Friday, May 2, 2008. I'ld rather be a Digital Pioneer! In answer to the Learning Circuits Blog's May 2008 Big Question. Where do I fit in? I'm not an expert at anything, really. It keeps changing too fast. I dabble in blogging, create a po...One t...
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Teacher eTalk: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. One of my favourite tools is Glogster. Here is the first completed poster:. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Botany Life Church is upgrading our playground. Have a Look! Monday, March 16, 2009. SOLO taxonomy in practice. At the beginning of the year the lovely and inspiring Pam Hook from Hooked-on-Thinking. Fame visited our school, and introduced SOLO taxonomy. It, and apply. It to their thinking! I am so impressed by my students! Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Crazy Professor Reading Game.
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Teacher eTalk: The New Learning Revolution
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Friday, November 6, 2009. The New Learning Revolution. I'm reading a fascinating book, 'Unlimited - The new learning revolution and the seven keys to unlock it' by Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos. All of us, together, are surging through the most profound revolution in human history. Its impact is personal, national, global - and, in many ways, unlimited. At its core are seven catalysts, now converging and fusing to change the way we live, work, play, learn, teach and create - at any age.'.
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Teacher eTalk: October 2008
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Thursday, October 23, 2008. Teacher eTalk Widget now available! Is a gallery of interesting widgets that you can embed into your blog to add a bit of bling. You can also use it to create a widget of your own blog! This is a great way to promote your blog, and for followers to keep up with your new posts. Here's my new widget. You can get it by clicking on the 'Get Widget' button in my sidebar widget! All you have to do is grab the embed code, and embed it in the sidebar of your blog. Last Monday, after s...
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Teacher eTalk: September 2008
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Friday, September 26, 2008. I had a cool teacher-moment this week! I had such a cool teacher-moment in my Year 5 class this week! In the life of a teacher. These moments are rare, but cherished! To do this I have empowered them by giving them links to sites explaining the strategies in Maths and Reading that we are focused on. All year long I have kept referring to our. Results, and explained the relevancy of every task we do in connection to the skills they are practicing. I just got it. A while later, ...
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Teacher eTalk: Open source tools for you to use!
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Thursday, October 8, 2009. Open source tools for you to use! I had an email from. Adrienne Carlson today, telling me about her informative blog post : 100 Best Open Source Apps for Educators. Some of the ones I liked were. A journalling site with opportunities for online journalling for our students. Really handy for visualizing words, especially when teaching reading comprehension strategies. Cool tool for creating digital story books. This blog is definitely worth adding to your RSS aggregator! View my...
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Teacher eTalk: Fostering creativity in the classroom
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Thursday, October 8, 2009. Fostering creativity in the classroom. This fun picture taken earlier this year when I was shopping in Singapore, was created with. One of the tools my teenagers are using to create profile pics for Facebook and Bebo. Sadly, I'm not at uLearn09 this year, but such is the power of technology that I am actually able to follow most of the keynotes, and twitterings about this year's conference in Christchurch. After speaking to the ULearn education conference in Christchurch.".
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Teacher eTalk: January 2009
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Saturday, January 24, 2009. Class TV Channel made easy! For a while now I've been researching a way to have a class TV channel, on which we can add video's, images and news items. I've been on various workshops to schools like Point England. And others that have their own TV channel. (You can find more on the NZ Learning Channel. I've also learnt to use Mogulus. Here's a look at how I'll be welcoming my class on the first day, using our brand-new class channel, SparkleTV:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Teacher eTalk: ePortfolios and eLearning
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Monday, October 5, 2009. At our school we have been using ePortfolios for the past two years, using KnowledgeNet. Using a template, our students keep track of their own learning, upload their projects and reflect on their goals. Parents can view their child's progress at any time, and teachers give feedback and feedforward as needed on a regular basis. Has been researching ePortfolios and provides a link to an MoE document ' ePortfolios - celebrating learning. October 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM. This is my wik...