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Keri-Lee and Clint met on Twitter in 2008 and have since spent numerous holidays, along with their families, together across Asia. Cross posted at Learning on the Job. To help facilitate our Twitter for Teachers session at Learning 2.011, we have decided to post the general outline of our presentation and any resources on both [...]

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 [...]

After the success of Fruity Fridays last year, we decided to introduce our staff to two new initiatives this year: Tech Tip Tuesdays and Wired Wednesdays. I have graciously been given 5 mins at the beginning of every staff meeting to talk through a tech tip for teachers. I will be sharing a range of [...]

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 [...]

While waiting outside for my 3.5 year old to finish her ballet class, I overheard some parents talking about schools for their kids. Naturally, my ears pricked up. One (Singaporean) parent said she had found the perfect school for her daughter. I was intrigued! Her criteria? The teachers had been teaching at the same school [...]

Wesley Fryer’s recent blog post entitled ‘Sharing by default and encouraging others to share‘ prompted me to share this super video about Creative Commons, called ‘A Shared Culture.’ When I began teaching, I wanted to keep my good work to myself – I wanted that fun learning experience to be something I gave the kids [...]