Monthly Archives: March 2008

A lesson from Scandanavia?!?!

An article in this months eschool newsletter grabbed my attention this morning “U.S. educators seek lessons from Scandinavia”. The article discusses some fascinating observations of schooling in Scandinavia and the results they are seeing after some serious changes in their … Continue reading

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Launch of our film and media course Podcast

For those of you interested in how all this web 2.0 “stuff” can be used in the classroom and to help student learning, have a look at our ECsite Media website. We have kept the design nice and simple but … Continue reading

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Collaborative Verse Competitive

Interesting concept was birthed today as I had discussions with one of my senior colleagues. He was asking me how our new film and media subject was going and if the students were enjoying the subject. Well of course I … Continue reading

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The shortest blog post EVER

Question from student – If I don’t remember this “stuff” next term can I say I truly learnt it? AHHHH Schools still don’t get it!! Care to comment?

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Creating an Effective Connected Culture – CHALLENGE YOURSELF

Most ed blogs seem to be forums of brilliant practice and places where folk show off things that have worked and reflect on positive experiences. I myself do this quite often. However, today is different…. this post is all about … Continue reading

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2 new cool services

Just signed up for two new (well new to me) web 2 services. First up, I had heard a lot about pownce for quite some time and never got around to playing with it. Pownce is nice and clean – … Continue reading

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