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Web 2: learn something new in 10 minutes

Yay! Wish I knew about these sites today when I was working with a teacher desperately searching for information on electrical circuits. Once again, Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day points me to interesting, new web tools.
Here are a few I could have used today….

How Stuff Works
YouTubeEDU – I use YouTube a fair bit but [...]

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Worth a look!

I am always surprised at how quickly time flies when I am just browsing the web. I have drifted away from viewing some of the blogs I use to regularly visit, and instead I have had fun searching out some new blogs.
Here’s a peek at what I found or re-visited today.

I love photography so I [...]

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Opportunities in a brave new www

Viewed this YouTube clip in a meeting today with my colleagues from CAtholic education in NSW. We were discussing the possibilities of harnessing Web 2 for our roles in supporting schools. We shared our experiences so far – pretty diverse from “newbies” to “techies”. I think I am in the middle somewhere!

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The power of good professional learning!

It takes an experienced ESL teacher like Paul Dufficy to exemplify what good, challenging learning looks like. In any context. So to the presenters of 21st Century learning last Friday….take note!!!!
Paul, who is also a lecturer at Sydney University in ESL, had our large audience of K-12 ESL teachers totally engrossed in learning. He shared [...]

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BEST and WORST of the week

BEST: Joining Ben’s VoiceThread conversation. Brilliant stuff! See my posts below.
WORST: Incredibly disappointing seminar on Friday about 21st Century learning. Needless to say it was more about product placement (Telstra, Microsoft etc) than elaborating on 21st Century learning. What a sham! At least I got something out of the Twitter conversations! Perhaps they should have [...]

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Ben’s Big Question

An update on my earlier post about Is a giraffe taller than a whale?
Check out some of the conversation Ben and his classmates had..
6 m that’s not big. The dinosaur is the biggest it has 40m.
The giraffe isnt tall at all!
But the dinosaur is not bigger because the whale is 150 tonnes and the dinosaur [...]

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Tweet! Tweet!

Finally I get the point about Twitter!
At a conference on 21st century learning today, the only thing that kept me interested in the discussion was the Twitter conversation. Great to hear what other people were thinking in response to the rather DULL speakers. For a seminar on 21st Century learning, they were incredibly OLD HAT [...]

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Is a giraffe taller than a whale?

That’s the question Ben posed during investigation time in Kindergarten at St Peter Chanel, Regents Park. How do I know that? He invited me to join his VoiceThread. So I did! What a ride!!!!!!
Ben, with the help of his teacher, Nicole, documented his investigation through photos, audio files and typed text, on VoiceThread. I was [...]

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What? You can’t be serious!!

I hope you caught the tone of outrage in my “voice” from the heading of this post.
Imagine me this morning, flicking through the Sydney Morning Herald over breakfast ( almost speed reading, in fact!!), when I came upon this glorious quote from an economist about her ADVICE FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION for remote indigenous students in [...]

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