Posted in Regular on Nov 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I am overawed by the amount of resources that are available to new teachers such as ourselves. For any topic that I need to teach all I have to do is google and I will find 100’s of resources produced by teachers that have been placed on the internet for my benefit!
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Posted in Regular on Nov 5th, 2008 No Comments »
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This is an idea that I used for year 11 students studying DC circuits. All of the students worked in cooperative learning teams of 3 (Killen 1998) and had the opportunity of using the equipment to create a circuit. It was at this stage that I could [...]
Posted in Regular on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Sadly, I am still unable to embed a video into my blog, but I would highly recommend that you take a look at this “YouTube” video. It shows a group of adolescents popping popcorn with a mobile phone!
All teenagers are familiar with mobile phones and the majority of them would have spent many hours using [...]
Posted in Regular on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
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Jane and I have been working on Webquests for our immersion activity. This is a term that I had never heard of before and I expect would never have come across but for this course.
As a prospective maths and science teacher I [...]
Posted in Regular on Oct 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I am having a great time viewing all of the videos on Teacher tube and wanted to share one that made me smile, but the above embedded link symbolises my lack of ability with much of this technology.
After following Matthews very clear instructions on how to embed a video in my blog (over a dozen [...]
Posted in Regular on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Earlier this week we had a tutorial on podcasting and the use of the software package “Garage Band”. I have had a Mac for a couple of years but never felt the need to even look at what that particular package was!
I had had some fun with it so I went home and gave my [...]
Posted in Regular on Aug 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
I have just been looking at some research on technology used by young people around the world and I couldn’t help thinking that new technology is a fantastic thing – if you can afford it!
This research by Yahoo stated that 88% of teenagers in Australia owned their own PC, 92% had their own mobile [...]
Posted in Regular on Aug 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here is a great tip from a clip I have just seen on Teacher Tube
“Class you have 10 minutes to receive a text message from anyone outside of this school .. telling you what they had for breakfast!”
Once they have received the texts you can put the data into a table, graph [...]
Posted in Regular on Jul 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Welcome to my first ever posting on a Blog! Coming up with a name was hard enough – now I have to decide where my thoughts are heading – Stay tuned!
