BYOD: Bring Your Own Device to School Initiative. Physical Education. The Rules of Education Blog Club: teacher netiquette. With thanks to Jim Docherty, Assistant Secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association, who provided THIS choice statement about teacher netiquette.
I've modified it, below: 1st Rule: You do NOT talk about Education Blog Club2nd Rule: You DO NOT TALK ABOUT EDUCATION BLOG CLUB3rd Rule: If someone like Jim Docherty says 'Stop', or the GTC goes limp, delete your account, the blog is over.4th Rule: Only two viewers to a blog 5th Rule: One thread at a time6th Rule: No personal matters, no moaning7th Rule: We will advise you on anything in your personal life we feel like8th Rule: If this is your first time writing an educational blog....why not watch a nice program on Teachers TV instead? The Best Resources For Beginning iPad Users. Though I haven’t gotten an iPad yet (NOTE: Now I have!)
, we did get one for my mother-in-law. So, with an eye towards helping her now, and me in the future, I put out a call to readers to their suggested resources as well as hunting for them on my own. You might also be interested in The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me. Here are my choices, and choices suggested by readers (their recommendations are better than mine!)
, as The Best Resources For Beginning iPad Users: iPad Getting Started is from TC Geeks. The 10 best iOS apps of 2011 comes from The Telegraph. The best iOS apps for children, 2011 is also from The Telegraph. The top 50 iPad apps is from The Guardian. Choosing the Right Keyboard For Your iPad is from Read Write Web. The Best iPad Apps: 10 Essential Apps For The New iPad You Got For The Holidays is from The Huffington Post. Educreations lets you easily create video lessons. iPads In The Art Room. Ten Tips for Personalized Learning via Technology. At Forest Lake Elementary School, in Columbia, South Carolina, the student population grows more diverse by the day.
Income levels, ethnicities, family structures, first languages, interests, and abilities now vary so much, that a traditional teaching approach, with a uniform lesson targeted to the average-level student, just doesn't cut it. (Sound familiar to you educators out there?) To challenge and support each child at his or her own level, the Forest Lake teachers and staff are deploying a powerful array of widely available digital-technology tools.
Each classroom is equipped with an interactive whiteboard and a Tech Zone of eight Internet-enabled computers. Plus, teachers have access to gadgets including digital cameras, Flip cameras, remote-response clickers, and PDAs. More important than the gadgets themselves, of course, is how the teachers use them to create personalized lessons and a productive environment where each child is engaged. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The Top Posts Of Web20Classroom For 2011. Is it 2012 already? Another year has come and gone and like several of my good blogging friends have done I wanted to recap the Top 5 Posts from this year. I am sorta surprised at the mix but there are some, if I do say so myself, good posts. Quick List Of iPad Resources For The Classroom-This was my top post of the year.
It contains several of my favorite sites and collections of using not just iPads but mobile devices in general in the classroom. Twitter In Schools-A Getting Started Guide-In this post I lay out things to consider when starting a class/school/district Twitter account. Twitter Series-A New Kind Of PD- Back at the beginning of this school year I did a series of posts related to using Twitter as an individual. Twitter Series-Super Secret Tips And Tricks- Another post from my Twitter series, in this one I give you everything you need to know to get more out of Twitter and to find more good information. Image under CC License from Sunkato. Scenes From The Battleground. I’m afraid I have rather neglected my blog during this last half term. Some of this has been due to the distractions of ordinary life, but a lot of it has been due to taking some of the opportunities that have come up as a result of blogging.
There will be various announcements to come, but one that is relevant to this post, was my brief interview about OFSTED, from the weekend before last, on the Chalk Talk Podcast, which can be found here. Hopefully, I will now be able to return to regular blogging, but inevitably I will recommence blogging with some comments and news about OFSTED. There’s been a few developments worth noting or commenting on. What's Good For The Goose... How to plan lessons that will engage,and motivate your class. What makes a brilliant teacher? While watching a brilliant teacher in action, you too may have wondered: "What is it that makes them excellent?
" Do we, as an educational community actually realise what makes a true teacher? Is it purely down to perfect pedagogy, rigorous planning and assessing, diligent resource making and clever behaviour management; or is there something more? As important as all of the above are in excellent teaching, I believe that there is something else, something as of yet not commonly talked about, and it's called the "T Factor! " In my experience, teachers with the T Factor, run a happy, high achieving environment in which the pupils feel content, valued and achieve high respective standards academically and behaviourally. These teachers create a sense of awe and wonder to develop enquiring minds with an insatiable thirst for learning that endures. The ten things every learner needs from their teacher. This post was written by Kimberley Rivett, a primary school teacher in New Zealand and was first published on her blog Dear Teacher, I am a learner.
I have certain needs and wants so I would like to give you a short lesson in how to get the best out of me… Give me the choices I like to have choices, not directives. Trust me Do this by letting me have the power over my learning and the pathway that I follow. Help me find my learning style I really don’t know the inside-outs of HOW I learn. Discover my ‘IT’ and let me immerse myself in it Everyone has an ‘IT’. Find unique ways to enthuse me Dancing around the room…being dramatic…making movies of us…recording my/your voice…putting my work on the ActivBoard as an exemplar…read me stories in silly voices…anything you can do that makes me buy into your way of teaching me!