Tip of the Iceberg

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 the technology [...]

Here are a list of apps I’m exploring in my workshop for Apple on Leveraging Learning with the iPod Touch.

Doodle Kids
Free
Neat little app created by a 9 year old Singaporean boy. We’ve used it for fine motor skills, creativity etc. You can take screen shots of your creations and email them later.

Flower Garden
$1.99
Neat little app [...]

Our K2 Team have been at it again! They continue to actively look at new ways of integrating technology into their programme.
Teaching about non-standard measurement is one of the K2 Maths expectations, and Louise & Andrea had the inspired idea of using the pedometer app StepTrakLite on the iPod Touch to make it more interesting [...]

My 2 year old son had an accident yesterday. He fell off his bike and split the bridge of his nose clean open. 8 stitches later, he is just fine, but as I’m sure you know, head wounds bleed pretty badly – so when my husband and our live-in nanny Raquel came in from the [...]

As so many teachers came back from the Christmas holiday with a new iPhone/iPod Touch, I decided to make the first Wired Wednesday for 2010 focused on apps.

We had a great turn out, and there was a real buzz in the lab as people talked over each other to share their favourite apps. [...]

I have been getting a lot of questions about the Apps we have on our iPod Touches at school, so here you are:

Miss Spell
Free
Check to see whether the word lists are spelled correctly or not.

Super Hangman LE & Global High Scores
Free
Fairly standard Hangman app, with good graphics

Story Kit
Free
Create an electronic story book by writing text, [...]

It was my daughter’s 4th birthday a couple of weeks ago, and of course she was spoiled rotten by friends and family.

Of course in this busy life we all lead, finding time to write thank you letters is a tricky business. Cue technology!
First up we hopped onto Facebook and created video messages of thanks. If [...]

My colleague, Chinese teacher Wendy Liao, has kindly agreed to co-author the following post, detailing her experiences using the iPod Touch for the teaching of Chinese language. I think she has fantastic ideas for the use of technology in Language teaching which need to be shared!

Wendy works with multiple grade levels, but for these [...]

Man have I been looking forward to this! My first chance at getting into classes with the iPod Touches. My expectations were certainly exceeded and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Full disclosure: I have never taught K2 before. In fact, I’ve never taught kids younger than Grade 2, so thankfully I had [...]

New Year:
Kids start TODAY!
New Job:
Flexible Timetable, k-5 tech integration & support at UWCSEA East.
New Toys:
14 Creative Vado HD Video cameras
12 iPod Touches
11 Digital Blue Microscopes
22 Acer Aspire One Netbooks
1 Visualizer

Getting Started:
I introduced some of our new toys during a whole staff meeting. I demonstrated (briefly) how to use the iTouch using the visualizer, [...]