Archive for March, 2009

Interesting post from Wes about worksheets.

March30

Since I’m home sick I’m catching up on blog reading.
This post from Wes made me stop and think about how many worksheets my students get in a week – and on reflection there are some weeks they get NONE!
The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning
At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker [...]

Integrated Studies in School

March21

Here is a refreshing video about blurring the curriculum lines in schools.

Fun writing idea

March15

Found on another website – a link to this:

You pull the spin lever and it spins all the different wheels to give you a fun writing idea – noise effects and all. I’m going to try this week for some creative writing.

Nerdy Post #2 – Backups

March15

You can never remind people too often to backup their computers – why? – because no matter how often you remind them when the inevitable happens and their HDD dies or becomes corrupted they panic because their computer wasn’t backed up and they’ve lost all their data.
I was just counting to myself the various ways [...]

Nerdy Post – Time Machine & Mac OSX 10.5.6

March15

Seems that there’s an occasional problem with Time Machine – today mine said that I didn’t have the appropriate access to use my external FreeAgent drive for backing up my MacBook – no problems with my iBook however!
A google search later and I found this work-a-round:
What to do if Time Machine reports you don’t have [...]

Visual Roll

March14

Here’s a movie I’ve just uploaded to Youtube

Mimio Update

March14

Edited to add: I’m aware this doesn’t look right – I have no idea how to fix it and am waiting for a response from the forums. Frustratingly I know how to write the html code to make it write but it doesn’t seem to work.I’ve changed my theme so that the pictures don’t jumble [...]

Ken Robinson & The Element

March7

This book was mentioned during one of the keynotes at #LATS09 – I’m going to try and get it as it seems to be an important book for this year. Here is a short video of Ken talking about passion.

Visitor vs Resident revisited

March7

Back in November I wrote a blog post called “Visitor vs Resident & Real Life”
I said this:
Talking to a teacher who is taking a lead role in ICT at school this year about the definition of visitor vs resident she quickly said she was a visitor. (Logs in, does what she has to do and [...]

Mimio day two

March5

I don’t think I will post every day but will probably post things as I’m learning about the Mimio. My one disadvantage (or several) is that (1) the mac software is lagging behind the windows software and some of the things that we saw at #lats09 in the breakout I can’t do with the mac [...]

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I am a:

  • teacher
  • mother
  • musician
  • sci-fi fanatic
  • computer geek
  • geocacher
  • blogger
  • wannabe photog

I have a secret passion – well – maybe not so secret – teaching is not about feeding information into kids brains – it’s about creating a place where kids are inspired, enthused, excited about discovery and learning – so my goal as a teacher is to leave my kids wanting more and having the skills to find out more.

This year I’ve moved up a year level and am enjoying the more sophisticated conversations and explorations that we are having in the classroom. It’s exciting to see kids motivated because our classroom is using 21st Century tools for their everyday teaching and learning.

This blog is really for my reflective practise – about things that have worked (or not worked) in my classroom and to share these with others in my PLN.

I should also mention that I’m a Kiwi living in the North Island of New Zealand (just north of Wellington).

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