http://ictwills.edublogs.org Blogs in Education...thoughts, reflections and learnings Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:40:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2009/09/26/class-podcasts-check-them-out/ hpsetm65dv http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2009/09/15/claim-code/ I've been off school this week due to highly unfortunate accident involving running, mud, downhills and horizontal rain left me with a fairly smashed up wrist. Not fun, not pretty but c'est la vie!! Anyway, I received letters from some of the kids in my class and this piece of ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2009/08/21/why-i-teach/ Was directed to http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk from Twitter and found out about www.Prezi.com. As I was about to put together a presentation for my class tomorrow I thought I would try this. It's very basic but fairly happy with the result - next time (feedforward) would be to have a less chaotic ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2009/08/09/just-something-i-tried/ Being a new school, with new technologies and a forward thinking vision, we have been under the spotlight. We appeared in the July issue of New Zealand's "PC World" and that resulted in TVNZ (the state broadcaster) coming to do a piece about us for a current affairs show. ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2009/08/06/world-famous-in-nz/ http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2008/10/09/wordle-cloud-for-this-blog/ I was introduced to this site by one of our senior teachers. Spellingcity.com is a site where you put in your spelling list and it then goes on to play a range of games (hang mouse - really cute, crosswords, wordfinds etc) to aid in the learning of the words.  After ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2008/08/11/new-spelling-site-discovery/ I really love Interface.  I eagerly wait for it to arrive and then walk myself to the far corner of the staffroom with a cup of tea and read it from cover to cover.  Every issue has been full of exciting new sites, lesson plans and something for me to ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2008/07/30/some-fun-new-sites/ So excited.  So terrified!!! I received an email this morning saying that I had been accepted as a presenter at Ulearn08.  I still can't actually believe that they liked my submission.  Now it this means putting together an hour and half about online collaborative learning communities and the tools that ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2008/07/27/ulearn-08/ As part of my integrating ICT into literacy programmes throughout our school, I have been surveying kids beforehand to gauge who they feel that they write for (their audience).  The intention then is to get the classes motivated and engaged with an audience through a means such as blogging.  Yesterday ... http://ictwills.edublogs.org/2008/05/21/children-writing-and-engagement/