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Learning Gems: iPad 29 Oct 2011 | 10:54 am
My latest discovery… I’m very excited about this one because many similar tools don’t work on the iPad. Wordsift is a tool that allows you to visualise the words in a piece of writing. Simply paste...
IPad: personal learning made easy! 25 Sep 2011 | 01:04 pm
I’ve had a wonderful time learning with my iPad. Now that I can easily blog from it I might just return to the glory days of blogging once a week. Blogging began as an educational experiment. I like ...
Hello World! (again) 3 Apr 2010 | 08:24 pm
Alas, the real world has interfered with my blogging …I have not posted in some time and now find myself blogging out of sheer guilt. The one positive from my lack of real time is that I will have to...
Really Expanding our Learning Horizons 22 Aug 2009 | 07:19 pm
The Expanding Learning Horizons (ELH) Conference is over for another year and I am left, once again, feeling lost and flat now that I am back in the real world of work and daily minutiae. I miss the ...
Reading Fiction in a Web 2.0 world. An experiment. 13 Aug 2009 | 03:53 pm
Web 2.0 has changed the way we do so many things. So I wonder if it is possible to sustain a piece of fiction using only Web 2.0 tools…a story told through blogs, wikis and other tools. Not your usu...
Maintaining a passion for words… 6 Jul 2009 | 09:51 pm
Why is it that so many students seem to have lost the desire to play with words and language? I used to love English lessons based around word games and language puzzles. It was fun for me. Unfortu...
I still love Animoto! 30 May 2009 | 09:52 pm
At my current school we have a regular assembly for the senior school once a fortnight. Fortunately, I had a few Web 2.0 tools to help my home group complete the half hour presentation. Thank you An...
A year is a long time in Web 2.0 (OR… Cue singing, “Happy blog birthday to me”) 11 Mar 2009 | 01:06 pm
My Web 2.0 journey began exactly a year ago, inspired by a few questions at a professional development activity and fuelled by my own desire to understand ‘what all the fuss was about.’ As a way of c...
A meme for educational change. 1 Mar 2009 | 05:22 pm
Thanks to Elizabeth Koh who tagged me for this meme which was started by TJ: “List FIVE changes you would like to see in the educational system. Your responses should represent your perspective and y...
7 things you don’t know about me (Tag…I’m it!) 5 Jan 2009 | 07:14 pm
This meme represents my first official ‘tagging’ and I have to admit I’ve enjoyed every aspect of it, particularly reading about others in my PLN. Thanks to Anne and Ali Hall for tagging me My 7 thi...
