Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Talking of behaviour management strategies. We tried the Very Important Letter a few times in ICT and I hope to re-introduce it next year. Simply, prepare some postcards with the following message. ‘Please thank this student sincerely for delivering this postcard. …
Over at ‘The Teaching Palette.’ I read an appealing article titled Magic Pocket Name. Its a simple behaviour management strategy, one worth sharing with you. You can of course read the full article but here is my abbreviated version. Idenitify …
E-Learning Proverb – The bait must suit the fish, not the angler. It was a RT (re-tweet) that passed through my Twitter feed over the weekend that struck a cord. Thinking over the Moodle teachmeet presenations and looking through my …
Google recently launched a new feature called the Search Stories Video Creator. This new feature prompts you to input up to seven search queries from acroos Google’s search features (including Images, Maps, and of cause web search), throw on a song …
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi How do we as teachers respond to incorrect answers? I like the % method, but there are others…. Well, that is 70% correct …
A very simple, fun no-frills password checker. Think Yr 7 – think how to login and the importance of simple safe passwords. Just a thought, don’t test your actual password! Get your students to test fake passwords and ask them which changes had …
I really like the concept of Google Moderator but have yet to use it in one of my lessons….. but I do think there is real potential. Today I read that following President Obama address about the recent oil spill, …
Tonight I am thinking more and more about how to encourage students to write. On the list for next year is WordPress accounts for all students and Depts. Also, I have been thinking more about the use of ‘in character,’ …
