My Blog: TV

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

The Arrival of a TV!

Yeah a technology break through! March 2011 - Blog post announcing the arrival of the new TV in the class.

The arrival of a 32” Samsung TV in the class helped motivate the children to share the blog with family at home. From that point on the blog has become an important part of my class programme. Everything we did I recorded with photos and each week I added a post of our learning on the blog. Often the children helped with the captions. It is my goal to have a kids blog running where the children are responsible for taking the photos and writing the blogs posts.

The blog has proved very successful and it’s encouraging to hear the positive feedback from parents, grandparents and other staff. It’s hard work and time consuming keeping the blog up to date but it is addictive!