Today's Learning

Many new things learnt at the ICT Cluster Workshop.

I will now use the Digistore more often.

Check out the link...I can link....!!!!

www.quietube.com

quietube.com is a site that cuts out and hides all the background ads and junk on Youtube. Open quietube.com and click on the bookmarklet





and drag it to your bookmark bar. Then when you are on youtube you click on 'quietube' in your bookmark bar and the ads around the youtube video disapear. Cool!!!

Ideas for grouping students

Doughnut
Two circles of people with one circle inside the other circle. After talking with each other for a set time the outer circle moves in a clockwise direction. They can move one or two people (what ever is specified) and then talk/discuss again.

Spinning Wheel
People in groups of three spaced around the room. After talking and sharing with each other for a set time one person moves clockwise, one person moves anticlockwise and one person remains. Then people talk/discuss again and move again.

Use Your Mobile Phone to Connect to Facebook

WOW!!! So cool. I used my mobile to connect to Facebook and was able to read my messages from the warmth of my car while waiting for the rain to stop. "I am sooooo clever!" (well I think I am anyway)

Eastnet Cluster Conference

What a great experience presenting and sharing some ideas about Kidpix with other teachers. Thanks to a wonderful colleague for putting together a great presentation using Notebook on the Smartboard. It was exciting listening to teachers squeal with delight when they discover something new (including Photobooth). Unfortunately we didn't get everything covered but I know they all gained some new learning that they can use in their classrooms immediately.

Snowboarding on Mt.Ruapehu

I'm trying again to upload a video. I think I have succeeded this time. However it does take a while for the movie to 'process'.

Adding a Q/Time movie

I'm just seeing if I can add a movie to my blog. It's nothing worthy of looking at - just my cat playing with an ice cube.

Well that was a waste of time. 25 minutes later and the video was still "uploading" so I cancelled it.