An Expat Educator in Asia

I just read this post on a newsgroup and thought that I might share it in the interests that someone gets something from it. Apparently it was posted as a list of “alternatives to PowerPoint. Not sure I would agree that they are all “slide presentation applications” but I could see how many of them [...]

I put a post up late last year when a group of educators in my PLN started a discussion about the etiquette of concentrating on the backchannel when a keynote is being delivered at a conference.
I see that Jeff Utecht and David Warlick have both commented about not getting much from conferences if this element [...]

100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle [Humor] | Inspiration
This would be a great site for kids working in a graphics program!
tags: photography, photos, inspiration, graphics

Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to [...]

There are a few reasons why Mark Prensky’s Digital Native term has not been helpful in a school context. The one I want to focus on here is the misperception that it gives some educators, including school leadership, that the students that they have in front of them know a lot about using online [...]

I have just finished listening to a podcast of Australian Radio Current Affairs program, Background Briefing where it discussed the issue of the proposed country wide internet filter the government plans to put in place via ISPs. The ABC does not keep the podcasts online for more than a few weeks so I urge you [...]

I have been thinking a lot about Curriculum recently. I had a discussion with Jamie McKenzie when he was back in town last week about his thoughts about the training for the IB PYP Programme which is inquiry based. I think Jamie and I agreed that in the rush for schools to say that they [...]

Skim | Home
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Stop printing and start skimming.
tags: pdf, software, reader, opensource

ThinkQuest : Think.com, Oracle Education Foundation, Projects | Competition | Library
This now contains Think.com [...]

There were a few comments sent to me personally about the post I put up yesterday about teachers and students “friending” each other on Facebook and other social networks. I can understand that many teachers were reluctant to use the comment function on the blog but I have to say that we desperately need to [...]

Interesting discussion on the Oz Teachers list on teachers “befriending” students on sites like MySpace and Facebook.
I have copied a summary here for your interest:

Some think it is okay to include students as friends but are very circumspect; others think that it is crossing the line between private and professional lives, particularly with current [...]

Asia EdNet – Discussion group: About the discussion group
The Asia EdNet discussion group covers any of the following and more:
* questions about classroom practices
* ideas on teaching about Asia
* sharing curriculum resources
* developing collaborative projects
* [...]