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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]