Techie No 1
Twitter and Skype set up.
Had a great afternoon, thanks to Mark Herring, looking at features of Twitter and setting up Skype. I am already signed up to twitter but do not use it as much as I would like. I like to think that I have eased myself in slowly and am taking steps to integrating it into my classroom. Already the resources and link I have found just from clicking on links and checking out other peoples blogs is overwhelming.
I now have Skype downloaded and am using it for in weekends to become familiar with it. Using it in class i the next step. We have a Skype Party set up for a couple of weeks with another school in Australia so that will be exciting. I look forward to connecting with other educators on twitter and then progress to communicating our classrooms through Skype and Twitter. Read More!
Had a great afternoon, thanks to Mark Herring, looking at features of Twitter and setting up Skype. I am already signed up to twitter but do not use it as much as I would like. I like to think that I have eased myself in slowly and am taking steps to integrating it into my classroom. Already the resources and link I have found just from clicking on links and checking out other peoples blogs is overwhelming.
I now have Skype downloaded and am using it for in weekends to become familiar with it. Using it in class i the next step. We have a Skype Party set up for a couple of weeks with another school in Australia so that will be exciting. I look forward to connecting with other educators on twitter and then progress to communicating our classrooms through Skype and Twitter. Read More!
Kath Murdoch Day
An Inquiry classroom - An inquiring teacher.....
Kath has a way of drawing you into everything that she says. Somethings that she talked about we had heard or read about (like some of the thinking tools) but alot of other ideas were new and really switched the light on. The way she spoke about 'Switch Ons' and how we all thought about our values and how that was a perfect way to introduce and maintain back into our daily plans.
The main part that really stuck with me was the reflection. It is something that is a goal of mine to do better within my teaching. If we don't model good reflection to our children how do they know the best way to do it and why. In my class the children have their individual blogs and as a team we are creating a reflection template that they can use each week to reflect on their learning in class. There are some really great class blogs out their to see how they do it. By the end of next week these will be up and running so check them out Room 7 Blogs.
To finish off this was taken from our notes on the day... "Inquiry as a way of being not a way of teaching."
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