Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Classroom Layout

I spent a good deal of time this year moving cupboards, shuffling desks and recabling computers in their new positions.  What a difference it makes having the computers away from the door.
Then this morning I noticed a tweet on Twitter from @techieicebreaker to @dwarlick.  It was a link to a wiki called Inspired Classrooms.  The wiki [...]

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Using Windows Live Writer for Blogging

Whichever blogging platform you decide to use, Windows Live Writer can be used to publish to it.
Installing is easy enough, just go to Windows Live and download the latest version.  Make sure you only select Live Writer for download, unless you want the other Live programs offered.  When installing uncheck the boxes that ask if [...]

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Minority Report?

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Monday, November 10th, 2008

To Blog…

The next thing to consider is how to use these tools yourself and then introduce them to the class.
I started of by publishing all children’s work myself.  Usually I would say, "When you’ve finished that piece of writing I’ll publish it on the blog".
For an item brought to share with the class I’d photograph it [...]

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Inking

Ink Blog Plugin
Update – first classroom use here.

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addthis_title = ‘Inking’;
addthis_pub = ”;