Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
This comprehensive piece (7 screens full, whatever that is in words)
via Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian looks a good resource for internet safety work. We're planning to run some sessions for parents on internet safety: this looks like it will be a help us make sure we cover all the concerns.
"Decoding MySpace - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Alan Coady has sold me on the importance of music in schools. Yesterday's Scotsman carried more evidence:
Schools 'need music as tool of education' , based on the
editorial in the current Brain Journal. There's a more detailed 1-page story
here that describes the method and conclusions. Unfortunately the original paper is a $28 download.
What [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2006 No Comments »
SETT, the Scottish Learning Festival, proved a rich source of ideas for Exc-el. I'm helping support
Glow, and was there to start on mentor training. That left plenty time to attend other events. I went for those I thought might help with Exc-el:
All about Glow G1A
Ministerial Address Peter Peacock
Everything is Miscellaneous David Weinberger
Success and Sustainability; [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Today we tried to set up the PCs - a mix of Windows desktops and iMacs - to enable the students to log straight in to their learnerblogs.org accounts using links stored in the Internet Explorer "Favorites". Tests had previously shown that this worked, but today we realised that this wasn't consistent - there must [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2006 No Comments »
We've jumped in the deep end, and we didn't drown. Here's some things we learned from the first 2 sessions, each with 23 children.
Create shortcuts to the individual student blogs: Although Robert had burned the midnight oil creating the blogs in advance, and had created shortcuts to the blog web site (James Farmer's
learnerblogs.org ) on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2006 No Comments »
If AiFL means nothing to you, you're probably not a teacher. It stands for Assessment is For Learning, and it's about improving learning using some proven techniques. There's solid evidence, for example, that formative assessment techniques lead to better learning. (See, for example, the section headed Why Take Formative Assessment Seriously on P2 of
this look-inside [...]
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