This is the third post in a series. You may wish to read the first and second posts concerned with what a teacher and faculty can do in preparation for 1:1 too. 10 things ‘a school’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms: 1. Funding– expectations of a champagne experience from a beer budget tend to fizzle when the reality […]
10 things ‘a faculty’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms: 1. Support the school’s agenda – help to make good ideas work but also shape them with positive input followed by action. HTs have a special role here in leading their faculty positively and realistically. Be collaborative and then complete honest reflection […]
This will be the first in a series of posts designed to help our whole school community gain the full benefit of the rollout of laptops. This year there will be hundreds of laptops flooding into our school and wireless connectivity. We have been preparing for quite a while now and will continue to do so. The […]
Twitter in 15 minutes View more presentations from Sarah Evans.
Recently I’ve been chatting with lots of teachers new to Twitter or keen to experience the service. I’ve sent them links that list ways to find teachers and professionals to follow on Twitter. Here’s an alphabetical list of 10 Australian educators that I get great value from on Twitter: Chris Betcher Dean Groom Elaine Talbert Kelli McGraw […]
Stilgherrian is often outrageously irreverent, and also shares his intellectual interests, on Twitter. He sent out this link, which I suspect will result in me losing many hours of my life to James Burke and posted this at his blog. Here’s a taste of episode 1 of Burke’s 1978 series, Connections. However, it his Knowedge […]
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2364455&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] I really enjoyed this ‘beat poem’ discovered at Stephen Downes’ blog. more about “Storm: A Poem“, posted with vodpod More of Tim Minchin can be found here and here.
This 3 minute talk by Renny Gleeson gets to the heart of the matter. ‘Shared narratives’ are powerful and being hyperconnected can allow this to happen across, and despite, physical spaces. However, there is a potential cost and I’m sure we are guilty as charged by Renny. I remember my years, in the mid-90s, travelling […]
This IBM commercial makes me think about our still very disconnected classrooms. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2351574&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Connected?“, posted with vodpod
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2349996&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “WWW in Plain English“, posted with vodpod