Hovering

 

A Hoverfly*

So, enough hovering.  Here's where I'll set up a portal for other teachers at school.

I'll post links to software, sites and other items of interest and reflect on some of the things that have worked well for me in class and others that haven't been so successful.

There are heaps of teacher/class blogs and wiki out there that I'll add as links, but I'd like to think that colleagues at school will be more likely to try new things ICT if they know that this is my space and that they can discuss things with me if they want to. 

I could introduce them to Twitter instead. I've been making class web sites and blogs since 2001, but always in isolation, an island entire.  Now, via Twitter, I'm learning from others again!  For years I've been the guru that people have come to for ICT help, but today I'm getting help myself from ethereal colleagues.  It feels good.

*Hoverfly "painted" in Artrage 2.5 - some post work (copy and flip the wing) in Paint.net

ULearn08

I've been back from Christchurch for two days now and the ideas are still buzzing so much that I can hardly get my head around the next few weeks.

We have to give a presentation to the Principal and Board of Trustees sometime in the next few weeks to show what we learned and to make suggestions for the future direction of ICT and learning at school. I have had the idea of trying to make sure that some of the Room 9 students are on the wiki during the presentation or perhaps inviting some of the twitter crowd to hang out that evening.

I'll spend the next few days collating my notes and gathering my thoughts and themes. I think I'll try and use pptPlex.