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If I Was My Blog: A Poem for the Edublogs Teacher Challenge

I’m catching up on the Edublogs Teacher Challenge for blogging. Starting a bit late, but that’s better than never apparently This is my first post as part of the challenge. The task is to write about my life as a blogger, but I’ve changed the bent on that slightly and written a [...]

A Virtual Learning Environment – The 2010 IWB Challenge

For the subject I am doing this semester, our second assignment is to create a virtual learning environment. So, I have created the:

This virtual learning environment has been built on a Wikispaces wiki and requires participants to have their own page on the wiki. The environment is based around participants contributing videos or [...]

3 Things I Will Do

So often after a conference or PD session we are all enthused, inspired, passionate and more and then nothing ever happens with what we have learned, or the changes are insignificant. There are many reasons for that  -  we’re too busy and we forget, the momentum of the conference isn’t maintained as we aren’t around [...]

Wednesday Whiteboard Workout

Here is my first whiteboard challenge workout post! Since last Wednesday this is how I have used and thought about my SMART Board:

1. I got Grade 2 students to record themselves saying the names of the Chinese Olympic mascots (you can read / hear this post here on technoChinese) using Audacity. The fact that [...]

The Great IWB Challenge – It’s On!

At the start of last week I wrote a post called Me, a SMART Board and some language teaching: A Commitment and declared that April was indeed Interactive Whiteboard Month here at technoLOTE. I put the call out for anyone to take the challenge of coming up with two new ways to use their [...]