And then there was one

Ballarat contingent- only anna left - how sad :(

Progress

Two full days spent working on our lit review !  Nice work Deb and Anna - keep

Up the good work 

Trinity bay cargo boat

Well all There is no excuse now for delaying the completion of my lit review and reflective piece. In Cairns after wonderful week away sailing up the east coast to Thursday island, seisia and back. Walked to the tip at cape York: view from sea swift trinity bay cargo boat deck depicted here. Fantastic fun.

Danielle

Hi Danielle so cool to catch up with you Friday 

Collaborative Tools in Education

Collaborative Tools in Education

Another example of current thinking with regard to the changing classroom

Blended Learning

Blended Learning

This is the approach to teaching and learning that from our discussions it seems we as practitioners prefer.

The following video shows an interesting view of this together with Four models of delivery and some indication of the success of the programs that have been used.

Ken Robinson: Leading a Learning revolution

Interestingly the students in EDBED4003 Integrated curriculum class love the videos of Ken Robinson's lectures.

Here is one for our perusal:

An overview of K-12 learners today

This video clip makes very interesting comments re: the way in which students want to be educated, which is in dire contrast to most traditional classrooms.

Wye River Folly: Masters research

WYE River Folly the site of Deb and my latest foray into working on our 'Masters'
Look at these cute new students!...how could one concentrate - Feed the birds!

We actually have done lots of reading...but you know the reading now needs to be organised into a definite essay plan

Time for another visit I think!

What is a podcast?

Hi I am attempting to give you access to a file created by Ian Wright at UB explaining lots of stuff about Podcasts
I have uploaded it into dropbox and am endeavouring to share it with you
Click here to access

I have also uploaded it into Google Documents:
Google docs link

Which one works best for you?
Please let me know via the Comments box how you get on with accessing it!
thanks
Anna

Yvonne at work

Yvonne working diligently to access this blog

Student blog instructions example

A blogger blog was set up for the Associate degree in Training and assessment class I taught. The following link takes you there for a look at a possible start/ induction for the online students to use the space. Associate degree blog

Welcome to our folly

Hi I have decided to go with the blogger blog and use mahara for my personal work which I will link from here. Many reasons for this including the way Wordpress and edublogs have started to charge for basic functionality tools.
As a believer in Creative Commons and open source collaboration I philosophically lean towards this host for our Weblog (Blog)