TeachingSagittarian
Sharing my experiences, thoughts & ideasTechnology & Learning Coach – One Year On #1 Reflection
Over the next few weeks I'll be reflecting on my first year as ES Technology & Learning Coach for the International School of Bangkok. It's my first year out of the classroom after 14 wonderful years as a teacher of Year 2/3, then Year 7, and off course, two...
Summer PD in the Comfort of Your Own Home
The wonderful folks over at Edublogs have put together the best summer PD you could ever imagine - they've organised the Teacher Challenge: 23 Free Web Tools. It's part of the “30 days to using the best of the web’s free tools for educators” series. Each of the 23...
Book Spine Poetry
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this idea of creating poetry from the spines of books. It's from the two gorgeous ladies over at Pro Divas (who got it from a tweet from Travis Jonker aka:@100scopenotes). It appeals to the photographer in me and my own love of poetry. What a great...
iPads in the Kinder Quad
Thanks to the generousity of our PTA, funds have been approved to purchase 6 iPad2s for the Kindergarten/Pre-K quad. An intial meeting with a Kinder team rep (aka: the techie Akiko), the following things have been decided: A separate iTunes account will be created for...
365 Grateful Project
This little video came up in my RSS feed today - and immediately struck a chord with me! [vimeo width="600" height="400"]http://vimeo.com/22100389[/vimeo] One tweet to my PLN about it & one response is all it takes to get a project rolling ........ Uploaded with...
A Message to Japan
It was all hands on deck in the Elementary School this afternoon as we tried to make 1000 paper cranes as a symbol of peace, health and happiness for the people of Japan. Over the past week and a half, the ES, MS & HS have been running various fundraisers to...
Share and Share-Alike
The power of your personal network really shines through when you share. Today I shared 10 minutes of my time by skyping into @jasongraham99's staff meeting in Jakarta, and sharing "3 apps and a tip" for the iPad. I have to say it was pretty hard to narrow the choice...
Easy Peasy Attribution AND Creative Commons!
So I've been thinking a lot over the past few days about blogging - or my LACK of it - and wondering why there's a LACK of it, ways that I can change this slack LACK-of-blogging habit, I have so easily fallen into, and involving myself in lots and lots of looking at...
2000 Photos in 4.39 Minutes
Thanks Alan Levine (aka: Cogdog) sharing Pummelvision - a super easy way to showcase your flickr photos with a few clicks. Here's my latest 2000 photos ...........
Wonky Donkey Comes to Thailand
Best purchase after three glorious weeks back in my home country - this book (and it's accompanying CD)! If you loved Pete the Cat, then you will just love this gorgeous book by this clever New Zealand guy: Chris Smith! You can listen to Craig sing his way through the...
Questions about Writer’s Workshop
When my good friend Melanie Holtsman from Chets Creek Elementary asked me if I could help connect her with some teachers here at ISB, to record questions for one of the co-authors, Ruth Ayres, of a new book out called, Day by Day: Refining Writing Workshop Through 180...
iPad you a Merry Christmas
As we prepare to pilot iPads in our lower grades next semester, the wonderful Ms Cofino posted a link to this great iPad video. Merry Christmas everyone!
Writing More Reflectively
Writing more reflectively is hard! We are trying to encourage our students to use their blogs to write more reflectively, especially as we lean more and more towards using the blogging platform as a suitable "container" for ePortfolios. Below is a post...
Using Techxperts in the Classroom
Classroom management is a challenging skill at the best of times! Thankfully managing a classroom with technology is almost the same as managing a non-technology classroom with some ever-so-slight modifications. Today I want to share with you one of the strategies...
New Learning!
Ever had those resource DVDs that you wish you didn't have to locate, carry around with you and insert into your drive when you want to use the resources?? Or do you have to share a resource DVD with teachers/colleagues in your team or division? Today I learnt, from...
Record, Reflect & Share: VoiceThread as a Digital Portfolio
In case you missed it, my presentation for the Kicking it up a Notch strand of the K-12 Online Conference 2010, went "live" tonight. You can watch it here, or head on over the K-12 Online Conference Ning & watch it there. There's a discussion forum available too,...
Touched – by a Book
This week's Fall Blog Challenge ......... Was there a book you read or was read aloud to you that you have always remembered or that has impacted your life? Tell us about the book and why it touched you so deeply. I had to really think about this one because I've read...
Another FlickrCC Search Tool
The fabulous Mr U, (aka: Jeff Utecht) showed me this FlickrCC search tool after our meeting the other day. Click on the image you like the look of, and this screen appears next: As a presenter, the stamp option is fabulous!! Check out what it does below! I do wish...
Get Ready – It’s Almost Time!
The K-12 Online Conference 2010 has launched the Pre-Conference Keynote by Dean Shareski. Dean's Sharing: The Moral Imperative was thought-provoking and a poignant reminder to us all about how much we learn from each other and how necessary it is to keep sharing and...
Polls
Sometimes writing a blog post can be as simple as asking a question and getting everyone to give a simple answer. I have to admit - I've never used SurveyMonkey before (I've completed a SurveyMonkey form before and I have made a survey using Google Forms). So this...
My Life as a Reader
Oh dear, I'm not off to a very good start with my good friend Melanie Holtman's Blog Challenge - I'm late with my very first post. BUT in my defence, I have been working on my presentation for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference (I'll be posting all about that in a week...