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Student Led Conferences

Posted by: klbeasley | February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment |

We had our very first Student Led Conferences at the East Campus on Friday 13th – brave choice of dates. Suffice to say it was a great experience. The photos (below) show such excitement on the faces of the kids as they share their learning with their parents.
In Grade 2, the kids showed their parents [...]

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7 Things Meme

Posted by: klbeasley | February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments |

I was tagged by beckcollect on the ‘7 Things’ meme which has been floating about the Twitterverse lately.

I am an amputee. Although this is technically true, it’s hardly debilitating when compared with landmine victims for example, as I am only missing the little finger on [...]

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Hyped

Posted by: klbeasley | February 8, 2009 | 3 Comments |

I guess I’m admitting to being 7 different kinds of geek now, but I am really excited about some tools out there that enable kids to share their learning with an online audience in a range of forms. What’s absolutely awesome about these tools is they are free for educators.
GLOGSTER:
Glogster’s tagline is, ‘Poster yourself’, and [...]

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2 Steps Forward

Posted by: klbeasley | February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments |

Photo credit: niko si
Had a bit of a despondent moment last week, wondering whether I was making any difference to anyone with this staff initiative on technology PD. Although we have a good number of people turning up each week, it still seems we have such a long way to go. Perhaps I was (naively) [...]

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