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 [...]

How much work do we do versus how much time we have.

So at present my class are working on Achievement Standard 1.1, History Research. For this they have two weeks, Four class periods for research in which I have booked the library and laptops and then a week by themselves. As always I feel that this graph accurately shows how busy they are given the fact [...]

Will it Stick?

One of the things we all like to do here at TEK is throw stuff at the wall and see if it sticks and I have to say that most times in education you have to run up to the wall and push it on extra hard to make it stay.  This can get [...]

Makoura College Reunion

So we made it down to Masterton for the Makoura College Reunion. I am at present looking after Rylee while Nat and her parents attend the opening night. Got some great photos on the way down and always interesting to visit a place that was once a huge part of someones life.
We have found of [...]

KKC Laptop Programme

Recently had an email which asked some good questions thought I might reply here as well for everyones benefit.
To answer your Questions
What are you using as the laptops? – full size, or netbooks? How many do you have, and what size school?
We are using a fifty/fifty mix of mac/pc all fullsize we have 120 at [...]

New stuff, always with the new stuff.

Ok so it’s now a recession, even the morning radio station said so but still the IT world seems to rumble on, new products are launched. Even Windows experts are thinking that we will see Windows 7 by August next year. In fact in the review on the windows super site the comparison between Windows [...]

Omokoroa No. 1 School Ride on Mower Day

Well the sun came out at last and what a successful event the mower day was this year. Huge crowds and some awesome racing. Now I can look forward to seeing the footage as we put together the video of the event. I have to say the mowers were faster this year than ever before [...]

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