I’m out of my classroom this morning for a literacy workshop. I’m not sure who the relief teacher will be but that’s ok – all my work is already online waiting for my students.
When my students arrive they turn the computers on and open up their assigned browser (long story!). Their home page is the [...]
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One of the other teachers at school brought her students (5 year olds) to visit in our class. As there are only 6 students in her class at the moment we put one in each of the 6 class groups.
I had found some online maths activities for them to do together.
It was fascinating to [...]
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Here is a refreshing video about blurring the curriculum lines in schools.
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Today I did my first session based around a #lats09 takeaway – I attended @heymilly’s session on 5 frame digital story telling and with my friend Mariee took some photos which we submitted to the 5 frame group page on flickr.
I wanted to get some talk happening and so told the kids I’d be showing [...]
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It’s hard to come up with that the absolutely best thing about #lats09 has been but one of the best is actually getting to meet all the people I’ve been tweeting with and blogging about for several years (PLN).
Sitting around the table at the Bloggers Cafe in real life instead of just virtually is fantastic.
It’s [...]
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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. [...]
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Busy Teacher’s Cafe — Classroom Management Page….ideas and tips to help manage and organize your classroom
In my classroom I begin my day with SODA – it’s based around Tony Ryan’s thinkers keys – apparently I’ve started a revolution because quite a number of parents (of kids in other classes) who attended a seminar run [...]
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Wine-ing 2.0: Gary Vaynerchuck Takes Down Twitter with Happiness
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started with 4-quadrant model – personality styles
life with the wright family – fun game
classroom snapshot rubic
surveymonkey
i like survey monkey – i just created a post-test for some learning we did this last week
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DLC #3 – literacy – this time about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and simple grammar conventions
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i think i’ll trial as a whole class activity in the computer lab – working in pairs
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