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During Wednesday's PD with Julie we were challenged by her as grade level teachers to reflect on what we need in terms of making e-learning effective in our classrooms. What did we need, what haven't we got, how are we managing with the integration of the new tools into our classrooms,and do our students blog? I laughed out loud - our students blog? Well okay, we as teachers input their "blog" for them. But there may well be some schools who do have Kindergarteners who blog, and it would be wort… Continue

So here's my summative reflection, before going home to the family.

I have to persuade my teenager to finish my facebook page, put all my school and personal photos onto flickr, check out all the cool video clips that Mike B puts up for us, create an edublog page so that I can really make this work for myself and parent communication, develop a wikispace for me or kindergarten, get caught up in the fun of using delicious bookmarking, and do some twittering or is that wittering?

Last night I hunted down a copy of the nonsense rhyme by Spike Milligan "On the Ning Nang Nong", in a poetry book belonging to Caitlin. In the introduction to Spike Milligan, he talks about nonsense poetry - taking an absurdity to the point where the reader laughs - but doesn't know why. It wreaks havoc with the English language and in the end puzzles the reader. Now put that into the context of how some of us may be feeling after today's PD. Out of all this playing havoc with our mind, puzzling… Continue