Blogging the world

Sometimes things just seem to come together. At the moment I’ve got two projects going. I was contacted by a teacher over in California with a request for collaboration. Now I have my 5th graders writing in English to other 5th graders in the States. This is exactly how I imagine my kids learning English [...]

The classroom blog

Blogging is pretty easy to do and setting up a personal blog should pose no great hinderence to even the most computer-clumsy, but how can it be used for teaching? There are many ways to use them, you can get the students up and blogging on their own, mash them together and all sorts of [...]

Accountability in teaching with technology

I was just reflecting on Ann’s comment on my last post about using the internet with children and it came ot me that about a year ago there was an incident. A primary school teacher had her kids go to the computer and there were sexually explicit pictures on the screen. The kids went home [...]

Social media = open media

Sarah mentioned on her blog the following: Social Media is not part of my culture. To me, it only makes sense when I am participating in a closed environment where I know people – like in this class. The start and stop times, and the built-in time and place to get to know each other [...]