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Skerricks The Student Conference Series is breaking new ground in flattening classrooms The Student Conference Series is a presentation series dedicated to students presenting topics they are passionate about to a larger audience. Each week students are scheduled to present on different topics from Minecraft to Fjord Ponies. The concept for Students Conferences first came from Global 2 blogger, Ben Gallagher. He and Mel Cashen had organised a year 6 student from his class at Meredith Primary School to speak to her class at Lightning Reef in Bendigo about woodworking skills. This worked out perfectly for the Lightning Reef class who were learning to make chairs and needed some wood working skills. Ben was so impressed with how well Harris was able to share and articulate his knowledge he felt this could benefit students all over the world. Students use the Webinar program Blackboard Collaborate which is provided by the DEECD Virtual Conference Centre to present on a topic of their choice. You can also read about the presentation that started it all here.

judyoconnell The Ubiquitous Librarian June 10, 2015, 1:56 pm By Brian Mathews June 8, 2015, 1:55 pm Carrie Donovan A few weeks ago I heard Carrie Donovan (Head of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Libraries ) give a keynote address at The Innovative Library Classroom Conference. Here are the slides from her talk: Shaking up the Sediment: Re-energizing Pedagogical Practice while Avoiding Bottle Shock. My main takeaway was the transition that Carrie is experiencing from teaching to consulting. [caption id=”attachment_4953″ align=”aligncenter… Read More June 5, 2015, 2:53 am Should librarians challenge the status quo? I decided to ask a professor. You’ve mentioned online that libraries should challenge the status quo. Read More June 3, 2015, 10:21 am Here is a quick interview with Andrew Whitworth, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester and Programme Director of the MA: Digital Technologies, Communication and Education. What is radical information literacy? Mainstream IL – competency-based,…

A Captivating Classroom – share your posts with us At Global2 we like sharing our community’s stories. This week’s guest post is from Mel Cashen. I am currently a Grade 5/6 Teacher at Lightning Reef Primary School. Easily inspired by others, I am always trying something new, especially around the area of technology in the classroom. Taken from Captivating Classroom This week’s challenge in the Global2 Challenge is to reflect on blogging in your classroom. Welcome to Miss Cashen’s blog. I first began our blog after coming across Kathleen Morris’ class blog and felt that it would be a great tool to bring different links together in one place. As I had planned I filled the side bars with links we were using in the class, sorting these into different groups and then using the posts to share the work we had been doing. Soon we began to look at how to write a good comment and the power of leaving questions for readers in our posts. Then we delved into HTML, something I had no idea about before blogging.

1 to 1 Schools The Daring Librarian Global2 Gallery Inside School Research By Holly Yettick April 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM A report by a UCLA research center criticizes models that rely on nonprofit organizations to partner with schools and community services such as health clinics in order to provide services to at-risk students. By Holly Yettick April 7, 2014 at 6:52 AM Preliminary results of a survey of California high school teachers suggest that poverty-related challenges lead students at low-income schools to receive half an hour less instructional time per day than their peers in higher-income schools. By Holly Yettick April 6, 2014 at 8:05 AM At a packed session of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, presenters offered simple and practical research-based methods of increasing student achievement by increasing motivation. By Holly Yettick April 5, 2014 at 9:15 AM By Holly Yettick April 4, 2014 at 6:20 AM By Holly Yettick April 1, 2014 at 4:06 AM

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