One of the huge benefits of eLearning is providing authentic contexts for students to work in.
This year, for the first time, I have students clamoring to share their mihi with others. Sometimes the Te Reo we learn becomes a rote kind of thing, especially if we’re not visiting a marae any time soon. This means [...]
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I wonder just how long it takes to learn “stuff”?
By that I mean learn it so that it becomes instinctive not just regurgitated stuff.
The title of this post is how long we’ve been at school this year and it doesn’t seem like a very long time at all. Yet when I reflect on all [...]
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In my mind whenever I see PDF I think “pretty damn fine” which is how I think of PDF files. I love them even more because I have a mac which has built into it a “save as PDF” option when you print anything. (Snapshot below is an example of that.)
So I was excited to [...]
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I’ve been playing around with AudioBoo over the last couple of days. I have an iTouch and AudioBoo is an app that allows me to record an mp3 file and upload to the AudioBoo website and then embed where-ever I want. This is a test to see how it embeds here:
Listen!
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Here’s something very creative – it could become my favourite rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus.
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Today we moved into our new classroom – I shot some video footage of the different stages of turning the Library into Room 10. Enjoy
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I’m not really sure who they are but I suspect they are sort of right.
I guess it depends on what we do with the change or even how we approach it but if we do it right it’s great.
The change for me is moving into a new classroom (ex-library) and up a level – [...]
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I’ve had a busy holiday period – week 1 was NZEI Annual Meeting and week 2 was ULearn09 in Christchurch. I arrived home last night and am now trying to sort out all the new ’stuff’ I’ve come away from ULearn09 with.
Tuesday
We (my colleague Mariee and I) flew from Wgtn to Chch in the evening. [...]
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Giftedness:
-noun
1. the quality or state of being gifted
A conversation with a colleague several weeks ago has had me pondering giftedness and what it really entails.
In school we have GATE programs for gifted and talented students – but that usually means those gifted in arts or music or maths or sports etc. But what about students [...]
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Our writing this week was quite simple – sort of. We started out by looking at a story/poem from a school journal: Recipe for a Saturday Morning. Then each group started off by brainstorming all the things they thought they should take with them on an island holiday (I had a stunning picture of [...]
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