Conferences « TeachingSagittarian

Project Based Learning

Andrew Churches’s Project Based Learning Institute session was informative and overloading and full of gems!

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What happened in my Birth Year?
Amateur – Lasse Gjertsen,
A great way to people up and talking to one another

Andrew managed to keep us engaged and busy for four hours as we made our way through the mirad of information surrounding [...]

Hot on the heels of Dr Helen Barrett’s session on ePortfolios, I was extremely fortunate to head off to the ASB’s Grade 3 Team and their presentation “Moving Towards the Centre - Grade 3′s journey into the world of ePortfolios” This team and their gorgeous students use google sites as their platform for ePortfolios. They have been [...]

ASB Unplugged - PreConference

Bruce Dixon & Susan Einhorn (Anywhere Anytime Learning Foundation)

Out of the pilot 1:1 phase. First 1:1 iniative over 20 years ago.

It’s exciting to be an educator at this time.

Here to today, not because it’s technology, not because it’s a cool thing to do but becasue in 1989 5 Grade 5 & 6 teachers in a pioneering [...]

Student Projects – Flat Classroom 2010 Mumbai, India

The Flat Classroom Workshop and mini-Conference was held during the ASB Unplugged 2010 Conference in Mumbai.

Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, along with Bernajean Porter, Anne Mirtschin, Steve Madsen, Sara Patterson and other amazing Flat Classroom participants and educators encouraged students to envision the future of education. As an action-based conference format student teams, (and [...]

Curtain Raiser Video - Mumbai, India

I’m home from ASBUnplugged 2010 – graciously hosted by the American School of Bombay – February 24-27. As I begin the process of reflecting on the sessions/workshops that I attended – editing and organising my notes for posting, I thought I would share this little video with you. I managed to get out and about for [...]

It's That Time Again!

Yes! It’s that time again ……. almost! You KNOW what I’m talking about ….. it’s that time when you can don your PJs, and suck up all the bandwidth with your own personal learning sessions, anytime, anywhere!

It’s almost time for the annual FREE K-12 Online Conference! This years theme is “Bridging the Divide”. And [...]

Book Clubs for Independent Readers – Maggie Moon

EARCOS 2009. Second Workshop Session with Maggie Moon – My thoughts in Italics

Kids like to read, kids like to talk – marry the two together.
Make them think talking about reading is cool
Read-Aloud important time of the day

Framework for Balanced Literacy
Interactive Read Aloud with Accountable Talk
Shared Reading,
Reading workshop
writing workshop
interactive writing/shared writing,
word study (phonics)

Reading Aloud to young children [...]

Interactive Read Aound with Accountable Talk – Maggie Moon

From EARCOS conference in Kota Kinabalu March 2009. Maggie Moon is a Literacy Consultant from the Phillipines. She regularly visits ISB Bangkok as a Literacy Coach. It was really good to be able to sit down and listen to Maggie speak. As a newbie to Readers and Writers Workshops, I deliberately chose to attend all of [...]

Writing Workshop 101 – Maggie Moon

EARCOS March, 2009 – Session Notes (my thoughts in italics)

Students learn at different rates – instruction should be differentiated
Be engaged in authentic work – give them strategies for where writers get their ideas from (key to writers workshop)
Explicit instruction going on
Students need a model – do writing in front of them. You can use mentor text, [...]

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 [...]