reflections – Page 11 – ibpossum takes on tech

Take home messages from E2

I’ve already done a post which was the basic run through of my week, so this post is more about the thoughts and ideas I have bought back – and how I hope they will impact on my teaching and learning programs, as well as how I can share them with other educators. The biggestContinue reading “Take home messages from E2”

Reflections from empowering e-learning – Timaru

In the holidays (yip, I am very behind on the blog) I made the trip up to Timaru for an empowering e-learning day hosted by cyclone computers (which meant the AMAZING Arnika MacPhail was involved) Sunrise on the way up – almost worth being up at 5:30 am for I went to 3 sessions andContinue reading “Reflections from empowering e-learning – Timaru”

drafting gates……

So, right now I feel like I’m the chap in the little blue hat. Sending sheep this way or that – you passed the assessment, you can do level 2 Chem, you didn’t, so sorry, no L3 for you. A Colleague gave me the idea, we were having a chat and it was his analogy forContinue reading “drafting gates……”

There and back again.

So, I’ve finished for the year. An empty, messy classroom is oddly quiet in front of me. I remember standing here at the start of the year thinking alright, you can do this. And I am thinking about the Hobbit movie – so excited, Ollie is going to Grans so we (hubby and me) canContinue reading “There and back again.”

Times – they are a changing – slowly but surely…

Since last writing a blog an enormous number of positive changes have occurred and I am again excited about the way teaching and learning is moving forward for my school. I have had lots of excellent questions about using 365 for collaboration between students and staff, staff have started making OneNote documents and a fewContinue reading “Times – they are a changing – slowly but surely…”

Does experience limit creativity? What a coffee cup did….

I had an interesting conversation with the better half last night. I was bemoaning marking and standardised testing, pondering why we do junior exams at all and generally ranting that my time (and the students time) would be much better spent doing real, relevant stuff rather the exams. Or watching the cricket on TV (althoughContinue reading “Does experience limit creativity? What a coffee cup did….”

Staying connected

So, I have had a really tough week – the wee man got sick, and we spent 3 nights in hospital in an isolation room as he had gastro (an interesting aside – Ollie was in a rotovirus vaccine trial group when he was born, he got sick Thursday, got a call Friday to sayContinue reading “Staying connected”

Leaving the front

At my school we are going through a period of change. The Old A block is getting knocked down (it is 85 years old) and some new class rooms are being built – they are about a year away. So it was a good time to go scavenging – with very little trouble and noContinue reading “Leaving the front”

ulearn musings 1- finding my path by looking back

So, it is day 2 of Ulearn, and we have been given some time. Time is so precious, and I always struggle to use it wisely. Or I get so caught up in tomorrow I forget about today, or last year, or even before that. One of my favourite poems is about time Time outContinue reading “ulearn musings 1- finding my path by looking back”

End of term III

Wow. Term 3 came and went in a big rush. But I am pretty pleased with how it panned out, especially the blogging of my lessons. I managed a post for each lesson of the life processes internal we are doing at yr 11, and started to work on the videos for my year 12Continue reading “End of term III”