Playing for change

It has been Social Justice Week at our school this week. It finishes today with a lunchtime debate between students and staff. Many students and staff are part of a variety of small, and not so small, activities/actions. Be it collecting mobile phones to help protect the habitat of gorillas or collecting money for East Timor, from being [...]

Mr Winkle and the 21st century education debate

From the Bright Ideas Blog,a video of an old story retold. Rip Van Winkle wakes up and goes wandering around the world as it exists today. He finds many changes but some things not so diferrent. Created as a conversation starter for professional development on the use of educational technology. This is a great and short video [...]

Searching with Google – new options

After the launch of Wolfram Alpha, or perhaps because of it, Google has enhanced its search facilities. I like always to use the Advance Search and try to explain to students about the benefits. I don’t get into all classes and they can forget so the new searching options are a further guide to making a search [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar | Virtual Hosting Blog A good list of productivity tips and tricks using Google Calendar. Alltop – Top Children’s Literature News Compilation of great children’s literature news. Offers links as well. 9 Amazing Software Mashups – Killer Free Apps that Work Better Together | Maximum [...]

Authors given voice (and video)

Writers Talk 2009 is being put up onto the web. WritersTalk 2008 and WritersTalk 2007 are also still online and well worth investigating. These sites offer a greate resource to everyone interested in writing, YA Writing and just how different authors go about their task. So far,  Tohby Riddle, Randa Abdel-Fattah, James Roy and Mark McLeod have [...]