Disclaimer: This is just my opinion being expressed here. I remember voting in a number of elections and becoming more and more confused. Numbers didn’t seem to add up at times and I think for a lot of us the 1981 election results tell a graphic story. Back in the day we didn’t have all [...]

I’ve just created some Google Draw templates for my students to use to create mini-templates. I got the idea from creating my mini poster (see previous blog post). One of the things I want my class to be aware of is creative commons licensing and to make sure they don’t use other people’s images without [...]

One of the things I’m enjoying about the Google Apps environment in my classroom is that kids just find ways of doing things without you teaching them. Mine have been creating illustrations and brainstorms using Google Draw so I thought I’d better experiment a bit with it. I read a post about some software available [...]

I’m currently using Gdocs in my classroom as a draft writing book replacement. Here’s how it works: 1. Each student has their own account in our school Google Apps for Education system 2. I created a shared folder (simply called Room 12) which I then shared with all my students and my personal gmail account [...]

This time yesterday I downloaded and installed Lion. There are new things and quirky things and broken things. New Things Full screen apps (Mac Native only) – I’m actually using mail in a full screen in its own desktop & Safari full screen in its own desktop Full screen apps have their own desktop – [...]

This morning I noted in my Google+ stream a comment that Mac OS X Lion is launching tomorrow (US time). I thought perhaps I should make sure my backup was current before the new OS was released. This got me thinking about what I would lose if I upgraded and something went wrong. This then [...]

James Nottingham Many schools are about proving rather than learning Gardner quote – teachers obsessed with categorizing kids What is a holiday? Links http://www.jamesnottingham.co.uk/blog/learning-pit http://www.challenginglearning.com/ http://p4c.com/ http://www.youtube.com/jabulani4 The Learning Challenge The Learning Pit Taking kids from a point where they are clear about what they know and down into the pit where they are confused [...]

I’m in Wellington this weekend spending time with some friends from my PLN. On Saturday we all attended/participated in the first ever Wellington Educamp. (Twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23educampwelly) Right from the start it was all about conversations whether they were 2 minute snapshots at the smackdown starter or around a table all talking about the same [...]

I’m really NOT obsessed at all with apple products – just because I’ve got so many of them doesn’t make me obsessed … or does it? Absent from this picture is the iPad, iTouch and iPhone.

This is just a catch-up of happenings in our classroom & school. We had a special visitor to our class for 10 days – Rohi. Rohi has her own blog and is on an intrepid journey around New Zealand visiting a number of schools on the way. Here is a slide show of her time [...]