Lately it feels like every time I turn on the TV news, pick up a newspaper or listen to the radio someone is talking about twitter or has written an article. So why is twitter increasing in popularity?
Off course I could try to explain why but it’s better to experience the power of Twitter yourself. [...]
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Have You Joined The 2009 Student Blogging Challenge?
The student blogging challenge starts in March…..have you joined?
Currently 14 class blogs and 80 individual students blogs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, England, Portugal and Argentina have signed up for the student blogging challenge. Each week there will be one challenge, and some weeks will include three choices within the one challenge so that [...]
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Looking For Global Projects For Your Students?
Looking for activities to do with your students?
Here’s a couple of projects that I’m watching that might interest you. Meanwhile if you know of any other projects that would interest educators – please leave a comment to share so we can all check them out.
Connecting Student Bloggers
Last year Miss Wyatt coordinated an International student blogging [...]
Need Help Building Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)?
Do you have some spare time? And want to work on building your personal learning network(PLN)? I’ve set up a PLN Yourself site that might help you.
The idea of this site is to provide a central location for “how to” guides so that you can start building your own PLN based on the 5 top [...]
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Please Tell Us How Christmas Is Celebrated Where You Live!
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you enjoy your holidays.
I’ve written this post so that we can learn more about how each of us celebrates Christmas and the holiday in our part of the world.
If you get time would love it if you could:
Share photos of how you celebrate Christmas and the holiday in your part of [...]
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Looking for Ideas? Check Out Our Class Blog List!
Have you checked out the Check Out Class Blogs and Skype Other Classrooms! pages on this blog?
We now have over 150 different types of class blogs on the Check Out Class Blogs page and contact details for over 35 educators interested in connecting with other classrooms on the Skype Other Classrooms! page!
Here’s a few cool [...]
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Please Share Your Contact Details If You’re Interested In Connecting With Other Classrooms
So how do you find classrooms to communicate with in other countries?
Hadn’t thought of that when I wrote the Quick Start Tips For New Skype Users post but fortunately Mike and David Ashby did.
So how can we make it easier for people to connect? Well been thinking that I could set up another page [...]
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Quick Start Tips For New Skype Users
Are you using Skype in your classroom? According to Anne Mirtschin’s students ” videoconferencing with another class in, another country, is the best and most powerful experience for them”
The purpose of this post is to help people get started using Skype. If you are already using Skype for your personal learning or with your [...]
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Check Out Our Class Blog List!
Looking for ideas for your class blog? Or wanting to connect with classes in other countries?
The good news is we now have a Check Out These Class blogs page on The Edublogger thanks to everyone who shared their class blog URLs. I’ve sort class blogs based on Grade/Year/Age of students and subject [...]
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Calling All CLASS blogs…Please Share Your Blog URL With Us!
When setting up a new blog it’s always handy check out other people’s blogs for ideas.
So I’ve been thinking it would be really helpful to everyone, especially new educators, if we had a page on The Edublogger for links to class blogs. The list could also be helpful for people wanting to create [...]
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