May 2009


This is so funny … and sadly true.
Thanks @dajbelshaw for the link.

Disengaged Students from jarrod robinson on Vimeo.

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As a part of our EHSAS Cluster we are required to engage in a Teacher Lead Inquiry.  The justification of this inquiry comes from The New Zealand Curriculum.  In a section entitled Effective Pedagogy the document states that ‘effective pedagogy requires that teachers inquire into the impact of their teaching on their students’.  With this [...]

On Thursday my class and I made our first Video Conference Call to meet our ePals from Riverdale School. The previous week I had been forwarded an email from another teacher who was wanting to set up ePals (email Pen Pals) for her class.  She has the same age children  as me (Grade 3 and [...]

Everyone is picking on me!!!!  Today I admitted to being a fan and now an active Twitterer. People keep asking me if I am following Ashton Kuttcherr and Ellen Degenerous … obviously not!!! I can’t even spell their names let alone find them!
I first encountered Twitter last May while I was on the Apple Bus [...]

Yesterday I was speaking to a parent/member of staff about the wonders of blogging.  We are both keen subscribers to several great blogs; I mostly after her recommendations and being both scholarly types, our conversation quickly led to Nick Rate’s recent post on parent engagement or lack there of as the case maybe.
Parent engagement has [...]

I have been diligently avoiding my blog.  My lofty ambitions of the Perfect Blog with weekly updates that are informative, thought provoking and inspirational have fallen by the way-side.
My problem, of course, is that I want to be part of the Blogging Elite.  I want to run before I can even crawl at a consistent [...]