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Teamwork: setting the standard for collaborative teaching Grades 5-9 is a book full of shared experiences from practitioners. It’s new, available online and, I believe, a good addition to any teacher’s personal library particularly teacher-librarians who spend so much time in collaborative partnerships. It’s interesting to come upon this after yesterday afternoon’s ‘Doing IT Thursday’ [...]

Tonight’s Libraries Sunraysia group meeting had a Technology theme.  It was an opportunity for me to share with library colleagues in the district a few simple applications that can be successfully applied to the classroom among them being:  Voicethread, Animoto and Toondoo.  The discussion also lead to moving beyond Facebook to the more professional Diigo network along with the [...]

So much is happening at school at the moment, it seems as if we had the early term break to build up steam for the rush.  A venture into using Toondoo with a group of literacy students last week was successful from a couple of different aspects.  Not only did the students enjoy the classroom activity but a number of them [...]

Well, following a couple of weeks of trying to rescue my blog…….. it’s gone.  Yes it was backed up! Long story – let’s move on.  Thanks to my son Sean for getting me back on track – yes, they’re a wonderful support these sons! After a few busy days of Year 7 student orientations to the [...]

I had some success this week.  While participating in one of the CoSN webcast entitled ‘Think before you ban: How classrooms become communities with Web 2.0 technology’ on 16 January (US time) – that was 5.00 am on 17 January Australian time – I recognised the site VoiceThread as one that I’ve been trying to relocate for [...]