I’m taking a well deserved break from report writing to mention our current classroom project. My students and I have been lucky enough to work with a Digital Weather Station (thanks Sitech). We’re putting together a digital story of our learning journey using Photoshop3 to demonstrate to other teachers what we’ve been doing with this technology. Well I must say, I’ve been blown away by the varying directions our learning has taken. What started out as teacher-directed learning fast turned into student-directed learning! After just a few days the data collected from around New Zealand plus our very own data collected by the weather station meant graphs and comparisons could be made. That’s what sparked the students to start asking why questions! Exciting stuff! I might challenge myself to uploading the Digital Story for viewing ….. maybe …… and I’ll definitely post the learning encountered in a later post! I’m just off to have a go at “pinging” my blog update! Vicki Davis gives some very useful hints & tips in her post entitled “10 habits of bloggers that win!”
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Good luck! This is why you ping — I went into Technorati and found your hyperlink to my blog. Now, I can find you and respond. The tagging, hyperlinking, pinging phenomena is so very useful and is the core of blogging (although most don’t know it.) Good luck, and I’m going to have to look at talk and write, it looks very interesting!
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I’m just blown away that you have left a comment!
Glad you’re taking a look at Talk and Write – it’s just such a motivational tool for the students in my class and the students in Simon’s class are just buzzing to0!