Archive for July, 2008

Jul 24 2008

What my class thought of our Google Docs project

Published by under Google Docs,Laptops,My class

As our summer term Google Docs project drew to a close I asked the children in my class to reflect on what we had done. I asked them to record the one thing they found the biggest challenge about working together with Google Docs and the aspect they enjoyed the most. No I didn’t set [...]

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Jul 24 2008

Missing Connections

Published by under PLN,Twitter

Many Twitter users have woken up this morning to find that their followers/following lists are a bit wonky. I noticed yesterday afternoon that I was approximately 300 people short of what I thought it should be. My first reaction was to dismiss it as a silly little problem, it is just a number, it will [...]

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Jul 19 2008

Emerging from the Myst: Being inspired and making a start

I am just about coming up for air from this year, the summer holidays are upon me now and I will finally have time to reflect upon some of the classroom activities that have gone on in this final term. This post is about using the adventure game Myst in a literacy unit with my [...]

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Jul 16 2008

Mr Barrett I have got glue on my laptop…

Published by under Laptops,My class

Although I may have led you to think that everything in the image is stuck to the laptop, I have to disappoint you! However I really like this image of my classroom because of just that sort of possibility. I want a learning environment for my class that blends the best tools for what we [...]

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Jul 14 2008

Peer feedback using the chat feature in Google Presentations

Published by under Google Docs,videopost

Other relevant posts: Google Apps in School – Week 1 , Week 2 , Week 3 , Week 4 , Weeks 5+6 Creating an emotion graph using Google forms Marking work in Google Docs

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Jul 01 2008

Teachers TV Filming – Online collaboration

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Teachers TV Tutpup.com Voicethread Google Docs

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