dragonsinger – learning, unlearning & relearning

We watched this video today at our cluster lead teachers meeting.

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It’s not the technology in our classrooms it’s the passion and vision we have. This via Justine (Rt:@NZChrissy RT:@Shareski Via @ujdmc)

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I’ve seen the name Classtools.net around but had never been to the site until I read a review in the NZ Interface magazine.
I discovered that you can create all sorts of interactive flash activities for free to use in the classroom. I watched a video or two about how to use the site and [...]

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I suffer from the problem of not enough time to keep up with my RSS feeds – today I opened up Google Reader to discover 600+ items to read.
Luckily I sort into folders and some I’m quite happy to mark as read and be done with them.
Others I skim through quite quickly.
But the gems [...]

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Yesterday we used a blog to facilitate our SODA (start of day activity based on Tony Ryan’s Thinkers Keys). The students worked in their groups to come up with their ideas. Then they commented on the post to record their ideas.

All the groups worked well and came up with fantastic ideas. I have developed [...]

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Today started off with lots of drama. I went to school early knowing I needed to finish up last night’s work in rearranging the classroom. Just as well as I discovered that the ethernet cable I laid (and duct taped) was faulty. No problems replacing it and firing up the computers. I flicked onto the [...]

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I’ve been working on how my students do their work in the classroom and being inspired by other teachers blogging about their experiences.
I took some photos today of 4 of my groups working. (I have 4 students who go to another (new) class from 9:30-12:30 due to size of our classes.) The 5th group was [...]

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I blogged during the holidays about taking a new direction in my classroom teaching/management and thought it was about time to reflect on how it is going so far.
Term 2 I want to explore some possibilities. So these are my ideas so far:
* Desks are grouped in 5 table groups of [...]

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A few days ago I read this post by Shaun a beginning teacher about his observation of a ‘digital’ classroom being run by Jacqui Sharp.
It made me stop and think.
Which isn’t a bad thing.
In fact it’s a good thing because if we always do what we’ve always done then we’re not thinking about our teaching/learning [...]

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