Thank-you

Thank-you to two new bloggers I’ve found whose posts really support learners of all ages and abilities.  These people encourage you to play with Web 2. tools – have fun!

Web Tools for Learners 

 Jane’s e-learning pick of the week 

Visual Search

This looks fantastic!

Learning = Health

I love the idea here that we need to think about learning like health, something that stays with us all our lives.  I also like the idea that schools don’t want to grow up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahbBfj_DjTM

Earth Hour – Make a Difference

http://www.earthhour.org/ 

Social Bookmarking

Wow, what an opportunity social bookmarking provides for schools to share resources and support each other.  How can I persuade my school where very few staff have even heard of Web 2.0 to have a go?

Global Collaborative Projects

Really exciting read at Julie Lindsay’s blog  e-learning journeys, about embedding global collaborative projects into the curriculum.  Fantastic, thank-you Julie. 

Teachers as learners

Teachers who see themselves as learners enable students to take their learning beyond the classroom as they understand their own personalised learning process.

I miss my mum

Kids Blogging

At our primary school the children are thoroughly enjoying our class blog and have recently started to contribute to individual blogs.  Their enthusiasm and motivation for writng has been overwhelming!  We’re exploring the idea of setting up a social networking property for the children and also a youtube type of facility for sharing their videos.  Any advice?

skills assessment

Having realised I need to teach pupils to connect, collaborate, create and contribute, I’m a bit lost with assessing these skills.  Any ideas?