The Educated Kiwi
Learning to change
I always love finding new videos that just say how I feel so thanks to Rich White I found this one.
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World War Two Combat studies guides.
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Recently @Moodlegirl sent me through a powerpoint of the War in Europe. This animated powerpoint show allowed us as a class to go through what happened very quickly as a recap at the end of the topic. I figured this must come from somewhere and there it is on the Combat Studies Institute pages, along
When the Flu strikes E-Learning comes into its own.
about 1 year ago - No comments
As the whole family has now had the flu it has been a decidedly average week. It has however been a good chance to use Moodle to set my class their work and still give feedback without being there. Our Year 11 History site has been used extensively while I have been away, coupled with
iPhone apps my Daughter loves
about 1 year ago - No comments
Recently Rylee has taken to playing a memory game on abcya.com, she does however find the multiple button mouse difficult so we were thinking about how cool a touch screen would be. I then remembered a review of some of the toddler games for the iPhone OS and to be fair I was amazed with
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors
about 1 year ago - No comments
While the KKC and MMC Maths and Science classes have been indulging in echalk resources for some time now, they have recently released resources on History. With particular interest to me were the tudor and stuart resources for yr 13 History and as we already have a license I can get straight into it. So
Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students
about 1 year ago - No comments
Being a long weekend I have finished a few books and one of the ones I should have blogged about a while ago is “Doing School”. I brought this book from Amazon after having listened to the author on itunesU. The basic premise of the book is that the author followed five successful students around
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Thanks to Derek for this one. As I sat in a class this morning watching students labour over a task that only a few seemed genuinely engaged in, the teacher and I discussed what their motivation was for the task. Essentially the only reason they were doing anything in this lesson was to get the
Australia Streaking Ahead?
about 2 years ago - Comments Off
On reading that NSW is going to abandon Microsoft Office in favor of Open Office I was impressed. The path of least resistance was to simply keep on with Office but no, in typical Aussie fashion they are going to thumb their noses and go with change. What does this mean for us? I guess