Raising Great Writers
Found an interesting article posted on twitter by web20classroom called Could Blogging Be the Key to Raising a Generation of Great Writers? There are a lot of educators out there that have the same beliefs and this is exciting to see.
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50 Useful Blogging Tools for Teachers | Diigo
A very simple resource that I think all teachers school read and share with their children.
My Challenge!
I have been reading blogs from Larry Fliegelman and Justin Tartel about their challenges to readers and themselves and have decided to set some for myself. I have got into a better habit of checking blogs and tweets, clicking on one link, kept clicking and ended up miles from the original site. This has been very exciting but I know that I am not the best at recording this all down on my Blog. So my goals are to...
- Record all my interesting sites and findings down, even if it just a couple of sentences.
- Commenting on Blogs and Tweets.
- Tweet about activities that are happening in my class.
Watch this space!
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The light goes on!
Working in class today to put keynote onto Blog through 'Slideshare.com'. Followed all the instructions but was unable to get it showing up on Blog. All that was happening was a jumble of letters etc. Went to find my trusty ICT geek :-) at school...no where to be found! Took me 10 minutes of figuring out for myself but finally found how to change it in the post options. Very little thing but I was so excited. A great example to share with the class on how we all have new learning to do and sometimes there will not be that wonderful person there to guide you through tricky spots.
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Priceless Twitter Finds
The resources on Twitter are overwhelming me! All in a good way though :-) Off a link from Professor Steve Wheeler tweets, I went into an amazing site that had an abundance of Web 2.0 Tools. What excited me the most was that I know the children in my class will absolutely love them. I can't wait to see what ways they can use them to show their learning. Over the next couple of weeks check out our class blog to see what ideas they have come up with.
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Kindergarten Blog
I was looking around the epal's website and came across this great blog that is from a Kindy.
It just confirmed my beliefs that anyone of any age can create a learning Blog or Wiki and show what new learning, wonderings and experiences they have. It really makes me excited about having our own class blog and children creating individual blogs. The potential is endless when it comes to what you can use them for. I am really looking forward to exploring all these opportunities as an individual in my own learning, as a group with my peers and with classes that I am a part of.
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Twitter :-)
With the lovely guidance from Justine I have set up my twitter!!! It is very exciting and I am looking forward to learning from others and exploring new educators. Watch this space...
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What is e-learning?
Had a great ICT release day with our leader Kiri last week. Our main discussion was around e-learning. What is it? What does it look like in our class? What does it mean? We have great debates over "Does it always have to involve ICT tools?". That was hard to get our head around. There is definitely a lot of interesting and different ideas out there and it is through out discussions with other teachers that it will become more clear.
The link below is from our Cluster Blog and it shows what e-learning is and isn't. This made it more clear to me.
http://www.managersforum.com/eLearning/
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POD Meeting
Started our POD meetings last week. Great to meet group members and have discussions on our journey that we are traveling through this year. The Video that was shown (I will find out who it was and post it) was very appropriate and made you feel very proud to be a teacher. Also very motivated to reflect more on my own teaching and what I do. My goal is to update my Blog at least once a week, and explore other educational blogs and networks.
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