School 2.0 in South Africa

In my efforts to get more teachers (especially maths and lit teachers) to blog, twitter and embrace 21st century learning tools, I am having a free ONLINE (jip you can do it from anywhere provided you have internet access) un-workshop during the whole of August. For more info and to register (20 people max) go [...]

How ‘microblogging’ sites such as Twitter can be used in education Compare three mb sites (Twitter, edmodo and shoutem) tags: microblogging, twitter, edmodo, school2.0 7 Things You Should Know About Blogs A blog—shorthand for “Web log”—is an online collection of personal commentary and links. Blogs can be viewed as online journals to which others can [...]

School 2.0 – Reflection Tool The Reflection Tool presents questions that are designed to help you reflect on your skills in technology integration and to identify areas for growth. These questions are based on the Technology Standards for School Administrators developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Skills Framework developed [...]

I received a tweet from one of my twitter contacts (loisath) which told me that I have been tagged in her “7 things about me” meme. So the first thing I did was to go and see what it is all about by reading her blogpost about the topic. Basically you have to write a [...]

I will load my learning pathways as I create them. Here is a learning pathway to learn why and how to create a blog….. What is a blog and why should we blog? Define blogs and contexts for use. Provide some blogs ideas depending on what kind of blog you would like to create. Take [...]

Today is the start of my first online blogging workshop. I have about 23 enthusiastic local learners who are going to walk this learning pathway with me so I should not be so scared, should I? My main aim is to see how an online un-workshop can bring together a bunch of people to learn [...]

Blogging is easy, effortless (I lie of course) and fun! So whether you want to create a vibrant space for your school to show the real spirit of learning, or whether you want to post homework for parents to keep track of what their kids are supposed to be doing, or if you just want [...]

I am so glad to report that instead of me nagging teachers to start blogging, I have been getting a lot of requests to run a blogging workshop. So I have decided to run all my essential teacher toolkit tools as learning pathways /un-workshops online (We are all gatvol of workshops- if you want me [...]

As I am still busy collecting good resources and getting my mind around why blogging is so valuable for education, I will, for the time being, store some of the valuable resources found here to keep track of things. If you have anything to chuck here as well, please go ahead. Classroom Blogging View SlideShare [...]

I am busy creating a blogging learning object for use with subject advisors and teachers. It has been a great learning experience for me as I had to actually sit down and think about why we blog. Speaking to other teachers and edtech aficionados, I realised that there are endless reasons for teachers to blog. [...]