New job new Moodle busy busy

So it is that I have started my new job at Tauranga Boys’ College. I am now a teacher of Year Nine and Ten Social Studies, covering New Zealand history at the moment and Year 11 Geography and History.
One of my year Ten classes is a laptop class, 29 students with nice shiny Macbooks. This [...]

Virtual haircut

Nat came home today and told me about the virtual haircut well worth a look. It had me reaching out to see if there was someone there. I can only imagine what this will do for gaming and the movies some day.

IQ Games for Geography and History

On my return from ulearn09 we spent some time as a family playing the two games I brought at the conference The Great New Zealand Moa Hunt and the Terrific Tuatara Trail. Both were great for some basic New Zealand facts and figures and also got us discussing some of these thing with Rylee [...]

Albany Senior High School

Last week we had the privilege during our ICTPD home group meeting of visiting a number of Auckland Schools. I will try and put down my thoughts here so they stay fresh in my mind. I guess the one that stood out the most was Albany Senior High School, ASHS as it is known is [...]

Exam Room Cricket

And so we come to the time of the year where we have to supervise exams. You can’t do marking, you can’t surf the internet on your phone, what’s left? Well being stuck in the hall again I have decided on cricket. The international rules are as follows:
1 Run = Letting someone go to [...]

The business end of the year

So we come to the time of the year where assessments are due and option choices must be made for the future. It is about now that my Seniors are getting bored with me talking exam techniques or getting them to hand in work on time. But I will continue to do so until November [...]

Getting work handed in the easy way.

As I come to using Google apps more and more I find it very easy for my marking work flow. I set the task in Moodle.
So in this case it was a quick lesson on one of the types of modern slavery. They were given these sites as a reference:

Amnesty
Crime reduction
Anti Slavery
Ecpat [...]

Wiimotes and Plasma Screens

It may not be pretty but this is the modified TEK irpen that we have used for making a plasma screen interactive. The reasoning behind this came from having to put a wiimote in a year one classroom and the projector giving an image that kids would be too short for. So with a slight [...]

Theming Moodle

Now despite Kelvin telling me that I am not allowed to change things anymore I am a firm believer in innovate or die and if I don’t continually play with Moodle it bores me and the kids so I figured why not have a bit of a play around with the Newbury College themes created [...]

What to do with 80 laptop bags?

With buying second hand laptops for our laptop program we have the problem of them all arriving in bubble wrap in the bags that they were returned from their lease in. Karamjeet kindly stacked them in the office but the question now is what do we do with them all. We have given many away [...]

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