Collaboration, Connections, Communication

Connecting with South Korea

It’s always fun to help out a friend, especially when they are helping their students connect and practise using English.

Today my friend, the lovely Mrs Durff asked me if I would skype into her class of Korean middle school students attending the Global Vision Christian School Pre-camp located in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. to learn English during their summer break.

Unfortunately [...]

Raising the Digital Generation - What Can Parents Do?

The other day I was fortunate enough to experience a Parent Coffee Morning, run regularly (first Wednesday of each month) by our school. This particular day had three workshops running, Summer Reading, Summer Math & Summer Technology and parents rotated through each session in 30 minute slots. We had over 50 parents attend which [...]

Big Footsteps to Follow In

As I lay awake each night contemplating my next big step in the International Teaching Circuit, (ES Technology Learning Coach – name change from Facilitator to Learning Coach was my idea) I’m thinking ……

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…….. my fabulous friend and colleague, Kim Cofino, will no longer be the 21st Century Literacy Specialist (Elementary School) and [...]

The Power of Skype and your PLN

My fabulous colleagues back home in New Zealand have been enjoying the Learning@Schools09 Conference held in Rotorua. When my good friend AllanahK tweeted that she was organising a “Matt-style” dance at the start of Wes Fryer‘s Keynote presentation, I couldn’t resist the urge to tweet back “Can I skype in?”

Sure enough – at 7.15am Bangkok, Thailand [...]

Skype-Connection-Fest

We’re involved in Silvia Tolisano’s short, simple yet so powerful Skype project AroundTheWorldwith80Schools. In just two short weeks we have connected with seven different classrooms in four parts of the world. And we’re not stopping there! By the end of our school year, I hope to share with you that we managed to connect right around [...]

Gr8tweets for the Month of March

For the month of March, a group of educators and lifelong learners will be picking a “Tweet of the day” and ReTweeting it with a tag: #gr8t

Hopefully, you will join us in doing this too.

There are a number of reasons why you might want to participate:
• To share what you value about twitter.
• To [[|see what [...]

Network in Action

Fellow COETAIL’s – we’ve been reading about personal learning networks and the power of connectivism.

Here’s a real life example of what is possible with a network. New Zealand’s next door neighbour, Australia is suffering right now from raging bushfires. These fires have already claimed the lives of many Australians, their homes, their schools, their communities. [...]

Anything is Possible

I’m so glad that I am learning and teaching in a time when just about anything is possible.

I encouraged my friend and colleague Robin, (also new to International School teaching like me) to email a Canadian author whose books she bought with her from Canada to share with her class. Her class of 5th Graders have [...]