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Deliberate Practice and Skill Development
One of the clear facets of the Australian Curriculum is the requirement for teachers to explicitly develop skills in the students. These skills include both the subject specific skills as well as what are now termed the general capabilities (another name for interdisciplinary skills).
The challenge for teachers is figuring out HOW they are going to be more…
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Shamblesguru's iPad : The Blog
I have an iPad2 and a New iPad ... and a very happy nephew who has inherited my iPad1.
This Blog is designed to share the…
Added by Shamblesguru on May 7, 2012 at 8:15am — No Comments
Convert document, sound, video, images and other file types with Zamzar
Zamzar is an awesome tool for educators who are going the extra mile trying to use technology in the classroom. Too many times educators receive files from other schools or colleagues that just don't work on their computer because of different operating systems and software platforms. With Zamzar you can take files of many different file types and have them be converted to another file type. There isn't any software that needs to be downloaded; just internet access. Click here the link to…
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The 21st Century Planning Process
I have this belief that the planning documents need to lead teachers through the thinking and behaviour you are trying to encourage in them. They are not just to capture information (although this is an important part of the process). How the teachers fill in the documents will tell you a lot about their current thinking.

So when you look at HOW the teachers fill in their current documents, their detail, their use of the current planning documents, and so on ...…
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Smartboard: Tips and tricks of the Magic Pen
Smartboard: Tips and tricks using the Magic Pen tool. You might not know, but the Notebook's magic pen tool does three awesome things that can enhance any lesson using the Smartboard.
Added by Brian Weir on March 28, 2012 at 3:33pm — No Comments
Sarcophage de Tchernobyl
Nouveau sacrophage à Tchernobyl
L'Ukraine commencera fin avril à dresser l'immense chape de béton, qui doit recouvrir l'actuel sarcophage, délabré.
L'assemblage du nouveau sarcophage à Tchernobyl, destiné à la réduire la menace de radioactivité, commencera le 26 avril, jour de l'anniversaire de cette pire catastrophe nucléaire de l'Histoire
La première phase de l'assemblage de cette grande arche de 108 mètres de haut et d'un poids de 20 000 tonnes a déjà débuté…
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Create dynamic data charts using Hohli Charts
Hohli charts is a simple method of creating dynamic data sets that then display as charts and graphs. This web 2.0 tool would be great and simple for students to use in a k-12 educational setting.
Added by Brian Weir on March 27, 2012 at 7:53am — No Comments
The Learning Jigsaw
This week's blog comes from Narelle Wood. Narelle is our Australian Curriculum expert and has worked extensively across a range of schools in supporting powerful learning in the literacy and English domain.
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An indulgence of mine is jigsaw puzzles. I will sit for hours trying to complete a particular section and it has got to the stage where I have sat at the table for 2 days…
Added by Adrian Bertolini on March 25, 2012 at 3:18pm — No Comments
Smartboard: Create a study game using flip tiles.
This is a Smartboard Notebook tutorial on how to create an interactive study game board in which students can move game pieces along the board if they answer the questions correctly. This gameboard use tiles that on one side has the answer and on the other side has the question.
Added by Brian Weir on March 25, 2012 at 11:48am — No Comments
eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published
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some negative aspect of blogging that writingteacher must consider
1_looking at other student blog may encourage students to plagiarism.
2_blog is a virtual environment and students need to be prepared to use language in real life.
3_lake of effective assessment criteria and evaluation
4_the blog of students who are more skillful in writing visited more by others as a result demotivate less skillful students.
what do you think?
agree or dis agree
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Tàches
Pour améliorer vos connaissances il vous faut faire les activités suivantes:
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Great Expectations: Coaching for Change in Schools
The most challenging, rewarding work we do in schools happens when we have the opportunity to build a partnership with the school over time. We really love this aspect of our work. Through these partnerships we gain a deep understanding of the school’s culture and priorities, develop meaningful relationships with teachers and often we act as a consistent, driving force for change.…
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advantages and disadvantages of using blog for development of writing skill
I am an MA student of TEFL and recently I am working in the advantages and disadvantages of using blog for development of writing skill.
for conducting my project I need the help of the English teachers who use blog in their writing classes.
Added by nrgskamali on March 11, 2012 at 4:34am — No Comments
Resources Issue
For those of you in the wider world who don't get a chance to catch all of our newsletters and blogs I thought I would include this quick blog post to capture some of the resources that have dropped off our web page which might be useful for you. We are consistently researching and developing ideas, resources, thinking, viewpoints, templates, workshops as we work with schools. We rarely have the time to make them available to everyone (although you can buy our Resource CD from the shop which…
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Create a virtual world of educational ideas using Edistorm's Sticky Notes
Edistorm is an excellent site for creating and using educational virtual sticky notes. Students can collaborate with the teacher on project ideas. They can vote on those ideas and make comments to eacher other. Use Edistorm as a means of brainstorming ideas.
Added by Brian Weir on February 29, 2012 at 3:17pm — No Comments
Create Educational Interactive Timelines with TimeRime
Create interactive and informative educational timelinesin an extremely easy manner. Students will love being given the option of creating a timeline. Use Timerime for history, art, science, social studies or just about any subject in which they are required to understand the time frame at which events occurred.
Added by Brian Weir on February 27, 2012 at 3:05pm — No Comments
Using Socrative to help students practice writing.
Socrative is an awesome tool used in Education to gain a better understanding of what our students have learned or are learning during a lesson by getting. In this post about socrative we see how it can be used assess writingin the classroom.
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