Staff Meeting - Blended E-Learning - 19/08/2013

Introduction

Resources for helping students to find reliable and safe sites

Bing
Safe Search
Quintura Kids
Oolone
Boolify
Dogpile
Fact Monster

Can adjust the reading level on Google

News sites for students:

Kiwi Kids News
Dogo News


Collaboration tools:

Dropbox
Padlet
Edublogs
Word Press
Blogger
Wiki Spaces
Weebly
Edmodo
Class Blogmeister
Bubbl.us

Presentation tools:

Prezi
Little Bird Tales
Animoto

Responding tools:

Answer Garden

Audio Tools:

Sound Cloud

Writing Tools:

Writing Prompts
Toondoo
Tagxedo


Anicient Civilizations specific terms:

Museum Box

Food for thought

An interesting quote. It really got me thinking about the lessons we teach and who we are as teachers. I think that this really reflects on the relationships we form with our students and the role we play within their lives. In the classroom we are a community and we are working together to provide these children with the skills and knowledge to achieve success. I think it is important to be constantly reflecting on what we doing and why we are doing it. Is each lesson you teach a meaningful and valuable lesson to your students. Did you go in with a positive attitude? Did your class have a fun and exciting day at school?

This takes me to the awesome article Would you like to be a student in your own classroom?
If you need a little inspiration or feel like your classroom is lacking that special something, this article will certainly put you in the right direction!

I Am Eleven - A documentary by Genevieve Bailey

I really want to see this, I love the quote used to describe the documentary 'An age where these not quite kids and not quite teenagers briefly linger'. Sometimes you forget how much they see, think and feel that is going on around us. 

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