A friend of mine has put together an awesome set of courses specifically designed for Secondary Teachers. Secondary Teachers need training in professional applications, not just webtools. The course spends a day on each of the apps in the adobe creative suite (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign etc) and there is even room to hot up your […]
All the talk on #PrimSecEdchat has been very encouraging for me. There’s been a lot of discussion about why exactly the Secondary sector is so far behind. I have a theory that it is to do with Subject Specialist needs. I’ve created a wiki and I hope the community can fill out out. Not with […]
Spoiler alert: this is a whinge. The primary sector is putting us secondary teachers to shame in the area of elearning. This is purely anecdotal, but: – how many secondary teaching focussed workshops will you find at ULearn or Latscof? (NZ’s elearning conferences). – as a direct result: how many secondary teachers attend? – show […]
Right now that I've got your attention hear me out. I can assure I will still be blogging, tweeting and generally living my life through a browser. However while reflecting on my e-learning philosophies and practice for a job application I suddenly had a thought, why don't we just call it learning? I've been using the int … Read […]
Watching teachers talk about iPads is fascinating. Basically, there are two groups. The “but it doesn’t…” group and the “but it does…” group. I’ll prove an excellent point: I’m typing on an iPad right now. I CAN do that. The wordpress app is awesome. But I want to link to this: http://elearningr14.blogspot.com/2011/08/devices-in-classroom.html?showComment=1314486600501#c4358877439497971779 There’s no attractive […]
Firstly, PPTA stands for Post Primary Teacher’s Association. It’s the secondary teachers’ union. I went to Wellington on Friday to attend my first ICT committee meeting. I met great bunch of people who care deeply about computer use in schools. There was a wide range of ITC skills in the room, and this enriched the […]
I have five beautiful children. Four boys and a girl. 14, 10, 8, 3 and almost a year. We use the internet a lot. I use it for social media, schoolwork, professional reading (a lot – I use google reader with an app called mobile rss on my iPad). My wife uses email a lot, […]
I read this blog. It’s an insightful, well-informed, no-holds-barred piece on “Why the iPad is not ready for the classroom.” Very refreshing. Most work on this subject is by fanbois who don’t know what they’re talking about or #haters who don’t know what they’re talking about. I recommend you read the blog first, as this is just […]
Well, that went well. I’ve used (little) metronomes before to illustrate how notes get divided up, but this is obvious, dramatic and enagaging. App: frozen ape tempo Hardware: iPad2 and vga adapter It was really effective getting a student to play with the beat separation buttons while the rest clapped the beats […]
Yesterday there was an email going around musicnet (the music teachers’ listserv) about an assessment point. A year 13 student had presented some excellent work which didn’t quite fit the NZQA requirements. In my opinion, the assessment is totally inappropriate for this instrument. It got me thinking about our role as teachers: Does the assessment drive what […]
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