LazyFeed – more real-time news

Although this has been around for a few months I have only been trying it out for a week. I thought I would give it a try to see how easy it was to use and how useful it might be. LazyFeed allows you to create real-time, personalized blog searches. Information is gathered all over the blogosphere [...]

Making a paperless school!

We are at a notebook school. We have been trying to cut back on paper use in school for some time now but with little real success. This was mentioned again in a recent meeting and we are trying to work out why our paper consumption has not decreased any major way. Then yesterday I was [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

Multiple Intelligences and Bloom Excellent combination of multiple intelligences and Bloom’s Taxonomy Boards. These grids originated as the result of a district initiative in the Deniliquin CAP District coordinated by Allan Barton, Principal of Oaklands Central School. The staff participated in a workshop presented by Ralph Pirozzo and then spent time writing these units of work using the 42 [...]

40 inspirational speeches – a montage

I first saw this video when my students showed it to me this morning. It was a good way to end our pastoral care session for the week. Created by Matthew Belinke in December 2008, it is a very clever montage. I also went to look at the post about the video on the Overthingking it blog. [...]

Students reading (or not)

I liked this video (from HeinemannVideos). One of my main aims as a teacher librarian is to help students become not just competent readers but young people who enjoy reading. When I was at university (a long time ago now!) it was suggested to me by one of my lecturers that giving young people some choice [...]