This week in our class skype chat we spoke about how people perceive Microsoft as a company (along with notions of cyberspace). This video is an oldie but so cool. Says it all.
If the graphic above caught your attention, good. I achieved my purpose of getting you to read the start of this post. It’s amazing what a bit of colour and fancy fonts can achieve…anyway, this is my response to the 2011 Edublogs Teacher Challenge – Kickstart Activity 2 (Advanced). I’ll be using a post from More >
Are you a middle or high school student? Do you want to use your iPad at school instead of carrying a heavy laptop? If you answered YES to either of these questions, read on to discover 11 must-have apps for 2011 – it’ll be worth it, guaranteed! I don’t have any affiliations to the developers More >
I will discuss my Personal Learning Environment (PLE) and how it works in supporting my learning. My Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Currently I am a student at the University of Melbourne completing my Masters in Education. I have just recently finished my Bachelor of Early Childhood Education degree and find that I am now using [...]
On my recent interest with the interactive whiteboard, i came across an article published in the IE (Independent Education) magazine volume 39 Issue 1. Written by Sue Osborne, the article discusses the advantages of having a interactive whiteboard in the classroom. The first advantage is that it is a breath of fresh air for pictorial [...]
This is the first part of a series of articles in how we manage a weekly live radio show in a primary school. CONTEXT Our school has a partnership with the local community radio station, partly due to sponsorship, where we are allocated a weekly hour in the program for the students to write and [...]
These are my brief notes from TeachMeetMelb#2. It was a great PD session thanks to Aimee Gale who hosted the meeting and all of the presenters. Presentations were either 2 mins or 7 mins long – just long enough for you to find out if you want to investigate further. You can watch most of [...]
For this first assignment I have combined a blog http://lorettafle.wordpress.com/ with a wikispace http://lorettawfle.wikispaces.com/ The blog is linked to all other members of the course’s learning environments. This was done through RSS. This has been invaluable as link to see what other people were doing many other students were very generous in sharing […]
There are two sections to Assignment One. One part is in this blog. comments have been made in both Learning Journal and the Reflection on the Readings. The second part of the assignment has been placed into a wiki http://lorettawfle.wikispaces.com/ I have put this link here as the link on the side toolbar can drop out at [...]
The slide show I first put together 3 weekk ago, was a great success at the school I am working at this year! Since then I have put together 2 more children's classic story books for the children and staff to use.THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR and WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT.The particular children we are aiming at, love the books on the big screen. At […]
The Voice Thread connection is to be found in my BLOG. It will not allow anyone to access it without my password. I have tried, several times to open it without my password; but have not succeeded. Have no idea; but it's a great 24 frame slide show.Lou
“The whole idea of helping kids play with remix to learn media literacy lessons is the delight of discovering those shifts in meaning that result from juxtaposition and recontextualization. You shouldn’t have to wait until you’re an undergraduate …This is something that can be introduced even to children 10, 11, and 12. ” Renee Hobbs
This debate has been about some of the many pro's and con's of online learning. Phil has come up with many common pitfalls and I have attempted to rebuke them in favour of my current favourite medium for learning.Pitfalls of TechnologyThe debate began with a look at some of the advantages and disadvantages from a technology point of view. Technolog […]
It has been an interesting experience over the last few weeks taking the side of a debate I had very little belief in. Having said that, I may have started to convince myself that I did have some good points regarding the benefits of the more traditional teaching methods. I feel like it has been a good challenge to try and put forward arguments against e-lea […]
I surveyed my students the other day on their use of Facebook, Myspace and Twitter (and any other blogging/micro-blogging tools that they may use). I was surprised that although just about all had either a facebook and/or myspace none had an active twitter account. Personally, I related more the the second VIDLO that ted posted [...]