http://annieb3525.edublogs.org This is my new blog that will be used to explore teaching with thinking and technology Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:08:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I went to South Korea earlier this year to run a workshop in Intel Teach Thinking with Technology I remember talking with one of the participants about the notion of ubiquitous technology. At the time I really had no idea what he meant and he explained that it ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/ubiquitous-technology/ This morning I went into the Grade 3/4 classroom. We began yesterday by setting up a wiki for the kids to create and post their ideas and reflections about what they are doing in class. In planning for this session I had a chat with Tanya, the class ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/29/being-creative/ This week we are beginning a really exciting new project with a school in Andale Kansas. The opportunity arose through some funding that I received through the Knowledge Bank. My idea was to create a connection with a school overseas and to develop a problem based project that used the ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/27/our-new-project-being-green/ This last 5 days I have been in Melbourne training another wonderful group of Master Trainers in the Intel Thinking with Technology program. I ran the program at Soundhouse at Debney Secondary College in Flemington, Melbourne. What a great set up they have there. Equipment ranges from a piano, drums ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/22/intel-thinking-with-technology-another-group-trained/ Chris Betcher is celebrating his 1 year anniversary of blogging and he pondered about why he blogs and why it is important to him. I actually started my blog on October 12 2005 although it took a while to get into a regular routine. I'm not as prolific as Chris ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/why-blog/ We recently had a discussion at our school about the value of Reading Recovery as an intervention program for students in Grade One who for whatever reason have not learnt to read as expected. As an ex Reading Recovery teacher I was very disheartened to hear that our region is ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/16/reading-what-works/ Today I was working with a Grade 5/6 class. They are building their Digital Portfolios in Powerpoint and while they have learnt lots of technical and practical skills the impressive thing are the ideas and thoughts that many of them are adding. But what blew me away today was a ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/14/maybe-the-message-is-getting-through/ Maybe it is a smaller world than we think...in the last couple of days I have been tagged by two 'bloggers' that I regularly read. Thanks Cherie and John. The challenge is of course to then tag another 8 bloggers and I presume without tagging the ones that have ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/09/being-tagged-has-its-challenges/ I just came across this great website http://mashupawards.com when I was looking for a definition of mashable content on the web. That led me to bookr - the winner of today's award. What a cool little application. I can see how we could create lovely little books for kids ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/08/mash-up-awards/ I've just been skyping with Chris Betcher, chatting about this and that...mainly school and webby stuff. He's been raving about Flock lately in his blog and mentioned it again tonight so thought I'd check it out. Just quietly, I think he might be right. It looks pretty cool. I ... http://annieb3525.edublogs.org/2007/08/07/flock/