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#teachmeetNZ – International year of Light

So, readers of this blog will now I am a massive fan of #teachmeet, especially #teachmeetNZ. The recent International year of light session was no exception – quality presentations from passionate, energetic educators who are willing to try, play, fail and share. The big take home messages for me from this session was to haveContinue reading “#teachmeetNZ – International year of Light”

Values and boundaries

This post is a bit ‘venty’ but I’ve got lots kicking around in my head. In the last couple of months I have been thinking about my ‘values’ as a teacher. More specifically, how do I align my ‘personal’ values from my ‘professional’ ones, the values of my school and the ‘expectation’ around what IContinue reading “Values and boundaries”

Tinkering

So, forever ago, I showed this in class when I was talking about ions and electric charge (I had been procrastinating the night before watching hunger games clips and ended up completely changing the lesson plans to talk about this) I wondered if were even possible to do. At the time, we had a goodContinue reading “Tinkering”

Paper clippings

I was a little mystified a few weeks ago when a cut out of a newspaper article appeared in my pigeon hole. But also stoked, it was a really cool article and what isn’t there to love about NanoGirl. There have been a few others pop in from time to time too I foundContinue reading “Paper clippings”

Stepping up with Sway

Since my last post on how I have been using sway, I have used this software in a different way in my classes. As part of our genetics unit, a colleague (Mel) and I have designed our unit resources to fit into sway. Traditionally, for the level of students we are teaching, this unit isContinue reading “Stepping up with Sway”

#EDBLOGNZ Challenge – inspiration

So, I’m not sure how to keep this post from being all gushy. And it is impossible to limit it to 3 weeks. Or 3 people for that matter. Sorry Nathaniel and the blogging challenge team. I’m breaking the ‘rules’ and not doing the set assessment task. Again. But over the last 18 months sinceContinue reading “#EDBLOGNZ Challenge – inspiration”

TeachmeetNZ CENZ15

I LOVE teachmeets. They are FREE, have real teachers sharing real stories, are short, they share resources and they are recorded so even if you can’t make it, you can watch and learn later. So teachmeets, along with educamps and twitter chats rate super highly amongst my professional learning favourites. Which is why when SonyaContinue reading “TeachmeetNZ CENZ15”

Edblog Challenge – Looking back

This post about how #scichatNZ started out for me was a no-brainer for me to go back to and revisit for the blog challenge. Especially in light of some thoughts bouncing around after Ulearn about twitter being ‘elite’ and an ‘echo chamber’ In my original post, I reflected on how valuable twitter had been forContinue reading “Edblog Challenge – Looking back”

Blogging challenge – resources

I am really loving the blogging challenge. It is stretching some brain muscles in a super good way. While I blog for myself anyway, it has been really good to have some leading questions to get me thinking about other aspects of my teaching and learning practice. For today, that is a resource I haveContinue reading “Blogging challenge – resources”

Blogging Challenge – How can I use NCEA better?

So, I am being cheeky and using this post to tick ALL 3 boxes of the blogging challenge. Does this mean I get credit for all 3???? Credit farming breaks my heart. It actually makes a little piece of my happy teacher persona die. Unlike fairies, no amount of clapping will bring it back. BecauseContinue reading “Blogging Challenge – How can I use NCEA better?”