Learning
100 Things to Do
You’re supposed to bold the things you’ve done…I surprised myself! 1. Started your own blog 2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band 4. Visited Hawaii 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. Given more than you can afford to charity 7. Been to Disneyland 8. Climbed a mountain 9. Held a praying mantis … Continue reading
Edublogger Con – Live Blogging
Clarence Fisher, has his students all day – he lets his students chose the tool that is right for them. Not everyone is a blogger, etc. That is so cool that there is that flexiblity in his classroom to use those tools. Brian Crosby – is teaching in a lower-social community – they are with … Continue reading
Learning2.0 Conference
Posting here for the next few days, Edublogs is blocked. I’m in Shanghai, China for the very first time and the view from my hotel looks like this: Last night I was able to meet face to face for the first time, the fabulous Julie Lindsay and the wonderful Kim Cofino!. Later, we were joined … Continue reading
One Semester of Spanish
Thanks Allanah K for sending me this via twitter ….. I had to laugh ….. it’s very funny and I can so relate to it!! This might even be a great way for my students to present their learning at the end of their “semester” (aka: 20 weeks) of español. Enjoy
Skyping with Upper Moutere School
Last night it was an absolute pleasure to skype with Year 7 & 8 Students of Upper Moutere School in Nelson all the way from Paraná, Argentina. It was fun to help them practise their greetings in spanish – which they did very well. The questions were excellent and well thought out and I hope … Continue reading
Record of Learning
I thought that I would use VoiceThread to document my spanish language learning journey. In case you weren’t aware, I recently won an AFS month-long language immersion award to a spanish speaking country as I teach Level 1 (very, very basic) Spanish. After each lesson my tutor asks me to prepare a conversation that practices … Continue reading
Introducing My Travel Blog – To Argentina and Beyond
This blog was created to be my backup blog when Edublogs was going through a bit of a rough and dodgy upgrade of servers. Over the last few weeks I’ve been checking out the best way to document my travel to and immersion in Argentina and the following extra travel that I will be undertaking. … Continue reading
Websites As Graphs
I just had to post before slinking off to bed. I’ve just spent the last hour and twenty minutes in the end of Week 1 Fireside Chat of the K12 Online Conference in Elluminate. 64 participants at one stage and the conversation was RICH. Clarence Fisher is so easy to listen to and his message … Continue reading
Pedagogy Learning Journey #1
My friend and fellow educator Chris Craft, left me with these challenging questions. I love the way he provokes my thoughts and ideas and so has given me direction to my documented learning journey on pedagogy as he so rightly referred to it. “I’d love to hear what this is all based on. You have … Continue reading
Quick Peek, First Thoughts
First 10 thoughts on personal teaching philosophy.In particular, How do I want to teach? Where do I want to teach? Why do I want to teach? What do I want to teach? 1. Rich, authentic, real world, learning tasks2. Skills embedded – learning journey documented3. Student-driven /initiated (not withstanding some teacher manipulation if necessary)4. Cooperative … Continue reading