Entries from April 2009

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Anarchist Lurkers?

A couple of weeks ago I was happily twittering away when @timbuckteeth (Steve Wheeler) dropped the link below into the tweetstream.

I have no idea why I clicked on the link. Maybe it was to test the livestreaming because I’d been experimenting with basic streaming from my phone. Maybe it was simple curiosity or perhaps it [...]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

A Glimpse into the Future?

A month ago I sent this tweet about a video at MIT.

The link http://is.gd/nBFI goes to an article at Computerworld.com that includes a video that is amazing.  It looks a bit clunky at the moment, (I compared it to this polished MicroSoft promo) but imagine what it could be like! I’d intended to blog about [...]

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Talking the Talk

So here’s my audio-post.  I got over the fact that I don’t like to hear my recorded voice, wrote a script and read it out (most of it).  There were a few mistakes and err…umms along the way, but I just did what I tell the kids to do, “Keep going, we can edit the [...]

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Sounds Good!

Earlier this week I left a comment (which I later turned into a blogpost) on this post by @wmchamberlain and was invited, via Twitter, to be a contributor at “At the Teacher’s Desk”   As I’d already identified audio and video of myself as a personal dislike I decided that the first step in “walking the [...]

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Prompted to Post by the PLN

This entry came about because of a blogpost at “At the Teacher’s Desk“.  I left a comment and then realised that the comment was really a reflective blogpost.
We’ve had a class blog since 2005 and I originally saw it as a way to share children’s work with their families. When I added a counter and [...]

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Teacher Effect

I followed a link from twitter the other day to a post about teacher effectiveness.  It came to the conclusion that everything a teacher does has an effect on students and their learning.
Today a photo from a parent arrived in my email to confirm this.

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