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Category Archives: Learning Environments
The quality of 1 to 1 debate in this country!!
The debate as to if 1 to 1 is a worthwhile pursuit in our schools has been taken to our newspapers with one of our country’s apparent “leading” edtech authors writing in with articles like this http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/maralynparker/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/dear_maralyn/ I highly recommend … Continue reading
IWB “Research”
So I tweeted this morning about a report I just found on IWB research – “IWB biz funds “education” report on IWB effectiveness I am now reviewing my health – not doc – I am fit healthy and not addicted … Continue reading
Apple Leadership Summit… Why a computer company gives quality PD?
It has been a week since the Apple Education leadership summit. I have had little time to sit back and reflect as I was straight back to work this week when I returned. What an amazing event though, it was … Continue reading
Wow what a day!!
The greatest thing about being a teacher is that not any two days will ever be the same. There is always variety in the day. None more so than my day today. I started today with a 6:30am flash meeting … Continue reading
Posted in 21st Century Education, Learning Environments, Life as an Educator Tagged Brett Moller, skoolaborate 2 Comments
Selling the vision
I have been working on different ways to sell the IT vision for our school to the staff. I must say here that I work with an awesome group of people who are keen to get going. A few weeks … Continue reading
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The Netbook Fad in Education
I was recently asked my thoughts on netbooks as a possible solution for a 1 to 1 program. As I started to think through the issues I started jotting down some rough ideas that formed a discussion paper…. So below … Continue reading
To LMS or not to LMS – That is the question!
Six weeks into my new role and I haven’t had a chance till now to blog about some of the exciting things we are doing. In fact this week was such an interesting insight into the world of my students … Continue reading
Filter Frenzy….
This week has been the week for news stories around the issues of internet filtering. First up, I read this article about the filter that McDonalds is placing on all its wifi access . Not such a big deal. Then … Continue reading
Media and social network experiment
Some may remember the experiment I was running with a colleague and his class a couple of months ago. We were looking at revamping a class with the use of media and social networking. My colleague is an experienced educator … Continue reading
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Joining the conversation from ANYWHERE
Just had to share this quickly – At the moment I am sitting on the beach with my wireless 3G connection to the web and my laptop watching Dave Warlick live blog from the NECC conference in San-Antonio Texas. I … Continue reading