interesting video to watch here

Today students in my class became news broadcasting teams. They worked in groups of 4 – 2 girls, 2 boys – and took the roles of news reporters (2), camera operator (1) and producer (1).
Each group had the same script to work from (our school daily notices). They organised themselves into roles with their groups. [...]

After brainstorming with my class about the integration of computers into our daily class life you may remember that one thing the kids first thought wouldn’t integrate and then discovered that maybe they could was listening to the notices. We have a radio system in the school that is slowly dying and it’s frustrating not [...]

are you using evernote? if not – may i recommend it to you ..
if you can’t figure out why you should use it after checking the website out take a look at some of the videos at the How I use my evernote project
and yes i have a video on that

A great post here by Jane on her blog …
i’ve embedded one of the youtube videos mentioned because i think it is very powerful.

… I asked my class to brainstorm how we could use the computers effectively in the classroom …
Here are their ideas …

maths
basic facts
maths strand activities
maths games
SODA – pictures/writing
topic
research
dictionary
reading texts on computer
storywriting – word/powerpoint
free choosing/reward
handwriting
encarta for kids
drawing/art
blogging

These are things we thought we couldn’t do on the computer – and then, when we did some more [...]

earlier this year i trialled a box system of computers (softexpand) – school went with xpandabox (no idea how it’s spelt!)
today i got three back which means i now have 4 computers running – unfortunately these three that are connected can only run ONE instance of firefox at a time (not particularly helpful) so i [...]

I asked my class what they liked and disliked about the Power Teaching that we’ve been doing for the past week.
Likes

specific rules – for different reasons
Teach-OK
them getting a chance to lead the rules
the gestures
the Teacher
all of it
smilies
oh-yeah!

Dislikes

frownies
oh-no
one person didn’t like the rules
several didn’t like the box below scoreboard (for habitual offenders)
one person didn’t [...]

I think this is a question that we should be asking ourselves – a couple of weeks ago I asked via twitter the following question “opinion please … can a tchr show/teach impact & innovation in ICT if it’s not an integral part of their life?”
Talking to a teacher who is taking a lead role [...]

http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2008/07/23/not-natives-immigrants-but-visitors-residents/
Interesting post that I very much like. I’ve always hated the term digital immigrants vs digital natives – even though i was born in the late 1950s (OMGosh that makes me sound old!) I am more tech savvy than people 30-40 years younger than me – i’ve been mucking around with computers for 30 years [...]