4 events

Here are 4 events that inspired me to record my learning journey as a blog:
1. In November 2005 I attended Professional Development courses run by Jacqui Sharp – "Digital Cameras for real Beginners and 101 Ways to use your Digital Camera."

2. I was next inspired by Dorothy Burt who spoke about classroom blogging at a Teachers Conference in Palmerston North in January 2010.

3. My wonderful techie and future focussed husband, Julien, continues to inspire and challenge me to try out new "technology." Hence my iPhone is now my favourite device that I am addicted to and would be lost without. Together with my iPad it has made it so easy for me to keep in touch with current changes in technology.

4. The last event that catapulted me in the deep end and showed me what could be happening in my school, was attending the ISTE conference in San Diego in July 2012. This conference opened my eyes, inspired and motivated me to share my learning. This blog, hopefully, will have ideas to inspire you to get e-learning happening in your classroom.


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Our Class Blog - 2012

These days our class blog is on our 4 class computers at all time. It forms part of the daily programme. If the children want to go on the computers before school they have find something to do on the blog.

It contains all the links to websites that I use for learning activities during the day. The children learn to navigate their way around the blog to get to maths, spelling, writing, reading, COT links and any other websites we use. I try to keep it up to date with current happenings around the world that they might be interested in. At the moment there is a link to the world record free fall jump from space.





End of Term 3 - September 2012

This year - 2012, I have become a lot more confident experimenting and trialling new web tools to share on our class blog. The ISTE conference and following educators on Twitter has helped sort what web tools to use.

You will find examples of the following throughout our class blog -
-       fotobabble
-       wallwisher
-       picasa web album slideshows and movies
-       voki
-    Wordle
-       Storybird
-       Glogster
-       Go!Animate
-       Blabber
-    YouTube videos (our own)
There are further detailed explanations and examples on the separate pages found on the right hand side bar of this blog.

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