Following the excellent Weaving Technology conference that was held in Wagga last October I composed a few ideas regarding the thought or process or getting started with technology in the classroom.

I blogged about these ideas here on my main blog ~ Watershed.

Essentially, when starting out with technology in the classroom I feel it is useful to keep the following three rules of thumb in mind...

1. Choose an aspect of the curriculum with which you hold… Continue

What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform.

Mark


www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment… Continue

Some axiomatic statements about what my learning environment would be like if my IB students all had laptops (any platform):



* nearly all if not every handout would be in pdf format, thus saving paper I'm nearly there already with www.mrfaught.org
* the door would open to many collaborative projects within a prescribed IB unit. here is a great example of this
* Web 2.0 would be the ocean in which we would swim
* Google Docs would allow cross platform, real time collaboration... forget microso… Continue

Decided to abandon web.mac.com and go with Adam Clark's suggested provider ipowerweb... a great change!! i have my own domain name and loads of space (1.5 tb). At first, i wanted to try wordpress, but have decided to manage my site in html like normal. i prefer the micromanagement approach. everything has gone smoothly and i have had to call customer service for ipowerweb twice and each time was quick and successful. I am very happy with this switch and it sets me up well for next year. new site… Continue

attended the international schools summit hosted by apple yesterday afternoon. I know this is dissing a sacred cow... but i was underwhelmed...
the presentations weren't really very good (Patrick Newell's presentation was the best of a marginal class), and, it seemed like a big marketing session for apple machines and applications... with little of use i could take away. Apple better get in gear with web 2.0... or they'll be left behind. That all being said, it was nice food. and, i'll sell my f… Continue