Tuesday, February 8, 2011

January Blog Round Up- Part 2 of 2

Welcome back folks! Tonight's installment is the final part of our January Blog Round Up prior to our weekly updates. For those of you interested in delving deeper into subjects covered on the blog, we are considering setting up a 'Read more' link to enable you to do this while those of you that are time poor can read the 'slimline' version here.

Thoughts??

5 Tasks to Teach yourself to Teach with technology
Nik Peachey is a Learning Technology consultant in London and has a number of blogs, websites and video tutorials but one post that caught my eye was discussing tasks you can undertake as a teacher to get used to using technology.



If you like these, he followed this post with another three tasks and also has a FREE ebook 'Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers'

Feel like Flipping Classroom Instruction on it's head?
The Innovative Educator is a great blog and a great post was shared yesterday about a current 'HOT' topic- 'Flipping Instruction'.

What Might this look like?




Why? " I mean when you think about it does it make any sense that school is generally a place where people come together to sit and listen to the person at the front of the room? It generally doesn't make the most sense to get a group of people together to sit and stare.

What if instead, educators spent class time doing and homework time for the watching of lessons/lectures. The other benefit of this is that these can be viewed and reviewed anytime/anywhere. The result is a lively bustling classroom where students can spend their time learning, talking, doing".

Want to Read More? Click Here- 'How the Flipped Classroom is radically transforming learning'

Finally, just for a laugh
How much 'IT speak' has seeped into our vocabulary without us knowing?
Below is a great sketch from The two Ronnies that Dave shared at Clyde Primary last week and then Sarah e-mailed me with this week, so I knew it was too good not to share, especially as Orange was my mobile phone provider back in the UK...



Until Next Time
K

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