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Macs, Schools, Pedagogy and Australia

July 5, 2010
Macs, Schools, Pedagogy and Australia

This morning my school were lucky enough to be visited by Barbara Stone and Westley Field from MLC School in Australia. They talked us through their use of technology. It was very impressive. Westley showed me photos of children in the playground busily chatting away over their macbooks. It’s an independent school and every...
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TeachMeet Moodle presentation

July 3, 2010

Many thanks to the legendary Leon Cych (@eyebeams) without whom this would not be a video. PS there was no camel so it goes on longer than the usual 7 minutes. The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. Using technology in the classroom, using it for learning, is an endeavour that engages...
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Teaching and Learning survey

June 28, 2010
Teaching and Learning survey

At my school we decided some kind of benchmark was needed to measure pupil satisfaction with their education. I set about writing a teaching and learning survey. Not as easy as it first appeared. I decided on Google Forms because they are so simple to construct and deliver. This is finished now (at least...
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Happy Fathers Day to me

June 20, 2010
Happy Fathers Day to me

This is my fathers day haul. My daughter made me some truffle chocolates (yum yum – they are delicious), a super dad toblerone, a nice muffin (sensing a theme here?). A loaf of my favourite bread. Last but by no means least, a pair of vibram five finger shoes. They are fabulous. A bit...
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e-safety

June 13, 2010
e-safety

I started writing a Moodle course for e-safety this week. I am authorised to deliver the CEOP materials but the course will be taught by another teacher as well so I cannot use these in the course. Instead I have gone for (lesson 1): teach-ict.com e-safety quiz games a social networking flash video a...
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