Thanks to Seng Chee for allowing me to share at his class in NIE this afternoon. Was warmly greeted by the HOD ITs who were attending their DDM course. Quite a number of these fellow teachers have heard of blogs and one of the teachers had allowed his students to use blog for their weekly journals.
A few concerns were raised during the sharing, which included copyright, vulgarity issues. Really glad these were brought up as I am sure these are common concerns by many of us. Thanks to the active questioning, as well as contribution of ideas by the wonderful audience, have managed to prevent a boring workshop 🙂
Weiying was with me and she had helped me advertised on the upcoming Edublog Workshop to be held at Nan Chiau High School on 2nd Feb, 1430hr. Almost forgotten about this. Truly hope some of the teachers belonging to the HODs’ schools can make it to the workshop too.
For those who may be interested, the ppt slides used during the workshop can be found here. A step-by-step HOWTO to account creation in blogger.com is available here too.
Another round of blogvangelism completed, cheers!
International Weblog Workshop
Found this great initiative via Weblogg-ed while clearing feeds in bloglines this morning.
The 6-week course is organised by Aaron Campbell, Barbara Dieu and Graham Stanley, with numeorus other facilitators including Anne Davis, James Farmer, Will Richardson etc.
Tried applying to join the course, not sure if it is too late, but thought it would be a great learning experience seeing how the course is going to run, with experts and participants all over the globe.
In the meantime, waiting patiently for the acceptance reply … 🙂
Concept to Classroom Online Worskhop
This site provides free elearning modules entitled:
1. After-School Programs – From Vision to Reality
2. Assessment, Evaluation, and Curriculum Redesign
3. Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning
4. Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
5. Inquiry-based Learning
6. Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom
7. Making Family and Community Connections
8. Tapping into Multiple Intelligences
9. WebQuests
10. Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom
Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard
You must have either heard of or played the game “Scissors Paper Stone”. Well, to spice up the game and to reduce the probability of a tie, here’s a new variation, with new addition of Spock and Lizard.
Have fun!
KnowNet – Open Source for Collaborative Knowledge Development and Learning
This few days we have been talking about looking at Open Source Software (OSS) for possible applications in schools, to support teaching and learning. Chanced open this site(KnowNet), home to 2 OSS, namely Plone and Zope.
For future reference purpose:
Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications.
Plone is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.