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 [...]

I have some workshops to run on Electronic Whitboards coming up next month so I thought it about time to get some slides together that look at some of the latest research.  I particularly like the research of Sandy [...]

Yesterday I read a couple of replies on email lists to a teacher keen to start blogging with a class.
The replies and advice were so good that I wanted to record them here.
The first bit of advice comes from Anne Mirtschin, a teacher from country Victoria who gave these pearls of wisdom:

1.   Initially I would [...]

I came across a great post by Jason de Nys last week that is worth sharing, especially if you are one of those really organised teachers already working on planning for the new school year.
Jason mentioned two tools for classroom organisation:
Termites for creating seating plans

and Monkey, for creating productive groups

Here is what he had to [...]

I guess that IWB is probably the most common acronym for the big touch screen boards making a huge

impact in classrooms around the world. The “I” is for interactive and the manufacturers are very keen to press this as being what these boards are. Observations of use in a lot of schools can sometimes reveal [...]