An Expat Educator in Asia

OK, this is totally stolen from the oz teacher list from someone called Rachel. It is just too good to not get out to you ASAP! Forgive me Rachel, whoever you are.
Use a PAINT program to
1. Illustrate a story e.g. Read the story of the nativity at http://www.topmarks.co.uk/christianity/nativity/index.htm (Students illustrate a scene using paint (or [...]

Readers of this blog will know that the last few years of my life have been an immensely rewarding but often frustrating time for me as I have gone about trying to work with schools to support 21st Century Learning in a region where many schools are still so predominantly textbook and examination driven. Whilst [...]

Millthorpe School Languages Blog: An outstanding video made by Eleanor Kettley-Tomlinson!
An outstanding video made by Eleanor Kettley-Tomlinson!
Eleanor has produced this video on daily routine in French. It is unbelieveable – click the link to take a look for yourself!
tags: French, video, secondlife

guessthewordle / FrontPage
Each Monday, Wednesday, & Friday a new wordle will be posted for [...]

CLI – Connecting classes trial
The project involved classes with students from two or more schools who received teaching and learning through “live” interaction using video conferencing equipment and shared interactive whiteboards across the DET wide area network. The combination of these individually “mainstream” technologies created a motivating connected learning environment that was more powerful than [...]

I have spent some time therefore reflecting on what a platform in a school that really gets 21st century learning and embeds challenge/inquiry based learning into all that they do might look like, especially in the middle years. I mention the middle school years as, in my experience, it is there where more often than [...]

Learn Chinese – Free online mandarin audio courses
Learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and easily!
40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download.
tags: mandarin, language, chinese, learning

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You have to love long-haul flights for catching up on reading. I am flying from Hong Kong to Perth, Western Australia and, en-route I have been reading a paper that I saw referred to on a list I monitor which had an interesting discussion recently about whether it was possible to predict a long future [...]

dougbelshaw.com/blog » Blog Archive » Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines
Over the past week I’ve been working on policies and documents relating to E-Learning and electronic resources at the Academy. The following are links to the Google Docs that were created with feedback from my Twitter network. They are very much still in [...]

In the lead up to the conference, I have been meeting with quite a few vendors. Some of these have been learning platform vendors. These guys have the unenviable task of trying to sell their product to schools who are not really clear on what they want to use it for. Some schools for example [...]

ICT games – Resource Topics – TES Connect
Great set of learning games. Many suitable for an IWB.
tags: resources, IWB, games, interactive

Staff ICT Skills Log Questions.rtf – Windows Live
A set of questions for surveying staff about ICT skills in a school.
tags: skills, checklist, audit, CPD, training

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