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Our fabulous music teacher Maggie Hess has been brave enough to start working on a really neat project with me – composing film scores for Public Domain Videos. Today, Maggie is wearing a button on her shirt which says, “Do one thing every day that scares you” (Eleanor Roosevelt), which sums up how she’s feeling [...]

The Singapore International Student Film Festival 2011 is just around the corner, so much of my time working with kids centres around video projects at the moment (I’m in heaven, I tell you!). I will explain other projects in more detail later, but with Grade 5′s, our wonderful Art teacher @togramann has been brave enough [...]

At UWCSEA East, we do rather like to get behind a great cause, and Movember is certainly worthy of support. From the official website: Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men’s health. Nearly every male staff member at [...]

Using Creative Commons images and music is something I am quite passionate about as an educator. I believe if students can develop a sound understanding of the licenses at a young age, then they will be the sort of people who are more likely to share their work in the future. At Learning 2.0 in [...]

For this year’s Hands On Literacy conference, my teaching colleague Louise Phinney and I teamed up (again!) to present about Early Years Literacy with the iPod Touch. Thankfully, our school recently purchased the latest version of the iPod Touch – which comes complete with a dual-facing HD camera/video. I consider this a complete game-changer, especially [...]

No, I’m not talking about culinary delights this time (though I had plenty of those). I’m referring to the ideas that have stayed with me following the Learning 2.010 Conference in Shanghai. 1. Connecting with people maketh the conference. I have blogged about the importance of people at conferences before, but each time I get [...]

‘Give one to get one’ – that was the tagline for the iPad Apps Unconference at Learning 2.010 in Shanghai last week. Here are some of the Apps that were mentioned: Soundnote (Formerly SoundPaper) $4.99 This fantastic note-taking app records the audio of a meeting etc as you type your notes. On playback, you can [...]

Nobel Prize winner William Butler Yeats said, There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met. This sort of sums up how I feel about Twitter, especially meeting my Twitter buddies in person for the first time today. I am lucky enough to be attending the Learning 2.010 Conference in Shanghai, and a [...]

Dear Mr ______ I was dismayed to see that a blog post I had written – 10 Great Ways to use Audacity with your Students – had been reproduced on your website verbatim. What makes it worse, is that you have made it seem as if my content was your own: I am sure you [...]

I am currently in Shepparton, Victoria, eagerly awaiting the start of the Slide2Learn conference tomorrow morning. During my trip, I have been thinking about how much I rely on technology for my travel plans, and how much of a challenge it would be for me to go somewhere without it. Here is a list of [...]