All ticked off

All 23 things ticked off! Feeling all computer savvy and pleased with myself. And really looking forward to some time off over the silly season to play on my computer! Merry merry jolly happy

1 comment December 14, 2008

teachertubing

This is my all-time favourite teachertube. I think it should be compulsory viewing for all presenters!

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=bebd3f6818359b0f8f6e

Add a comment December 12, 2008

podlisteningcasts

Listening in English is easy for me and working in a shared office means lots of opportunities to put on the headphones and tune out all distracting noises! Listening in English is not so easy for my international students, so I think encouraging them to subscribe to some podcasts (esp. in Science – their area of interest) would be a really good way for them to practise. I found some interesting science podcasts:
the naked scientists
sleek geek radio
And I found a cool one for me to catch  (since I get to work too early to listen to the radio broadcast), on radio national.

Add a comment December 10, 2008

Dig, digg, diggg

I put an article on digg.com and I’m not sure I’ll do it again. It felt a bit too much like a competition. I’m more interested in obscurity than sensation – or cyber-gossip…

Add a comment December 4, 2008

How much water is there in the ocean?

I knew the Internet was big – I mean I knew there was a lot of stuff on it – at least I thought I knew… But my learning today is that there are definitely different levels of “knowing”! With just a few subscriptions, my igoogle feed reader is already telling me that there are 547 articles that I haven’t read today!! I’m considering moving it further towards the bottom of my page so it doesn’t guilt me out!

5 comments December 3, 2008

Blind leadership

I’m reminded of the blind leading the blind story and I guess willingness must be a strong factor… Certainly I was excited by the idea that my students could all work together on their one group report from anywhere at anytime – and they were mostly more interested in setting up their Google doc, than in actually getting the graphs and research done! Time will tell the extent of our success, but if willingness has anything to do with it, we should all be positively surprised!

I think they’re all pretty impressed with my rapidly increasing technologicalness!! (Thanks 23 things teachers!)

1 comment December 1, 2008