E-Learning For Life

Fostering a professional learning community in Qatar and beyond

Blog Posts Across E-Learning For Life

Candace L. Martin "Candy" web sites of interest

TeacherTube - Teacher Videos, Lesson Plan Videos, Student Videos http://www.teachertube.com/ "an online community for sharing instructional videos." Search, or browse the channels for subject area or grade level. All channels have RSS feeds. Note that the service relies on users to flag inappropriate videos. Travel Tips for Globe-Trotting Geeks - Wired How-To Wiki http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Travel_Tips_for_Globetrotting_Geeks Or how to avoid problems with your electronic equipment when traveli… Continue

Posted by Candace L. Martin "Candy" on May 25, 2008 at 9:32am — No Comments

Rebecca Hatherley Flash-My-Brain

I have been looking for years to find GOOD software to help me create Flash Cards, that doesn't require glue. I am truly loving Flash-My-Brain. Here are some of it's specs: - both MAC and PC versions - very simple user interface, easy for people who are low tech - cool inter… Continue

Posted by Rebecca Hatherley on May 22, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Julie Lindsay Seven Steps to a Flat Classroom on Atomic Learning

I just caught up with this today....knew it was coming and that my friend Vicki Davis spent hours producing it. Seven Steps to a Flat Classroom is now available on Atomic Learning. For Qatar Academy the login is - ID: qataracad PW: doha Topics covered include: - What is a Flat Classroom? - Connect yourself - Connect students - Create pro-learner… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on May 13, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Julie Lindsay Some interesting resouces..one that is a lot of fun!

OK, just on my way home....hungry family wants lasagna cooked for dinner...but had to share these with you. Tablet PC workshop Lots of other workshops by Mark Wagner that are really worth checking out! and...the best is last.... Sketchcast! This is great! Going home to play some more...after the lasagna Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on May 11, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Julie Lindsay Introducing the Horizon Project 2008 to Qatar Academy

The Ning is a place for us as teachers to relate our pedagogical successes (and near misses) with our colleagues. This serves two main purposes: to share ideas, thoughts and reflections and foster an informed and interactive online learning community; to inform latest classroom applications and adventures in 21st century learning so that others may also know what is going on in the school (and the world) and make decisions as to whether all or part of the practice can be transferre… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on May 4, 2008 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

Julie Lindsay "Machines are the easy part; people are the hard part" Free book from Doug Johnson

Hot off the press!! Doug Johnson, (Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato (MN, USA) Public Schools ) who writes The Blue Skunk Blog, is offering his book "Machines are the easy part; people are the hard part" as a free download at Lulu. (You could also buy a… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on May 1, 2008 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Sudha Konnanath Are student digital portfolios a realistic alternative to standardized tests?

Are student digital portfolios a realistic alternative to standardized tests? ‘Learning and Leading with Technology’s popular Point/Counterpoint section is looking for 500-word arguments on both sides of the question, "Are student digital portfolios a realistic alternative to standardized tests?" Please contact L&L Managing Editor Davis N. Smith (dsmith@iste.org ) if you are interested in advocating either side of this issue. Point/Counterpoint articles are relatively informal. If… Continue

Posted by Sudha Konnanath on April 30, 2008 at 7:57am — 4 Comments

Julie Lindsay 7 Things You Should Know About Ning......

I am always interested when a new '7 Things you Should Know....' help-sheet comes out from Educause. From their website it states: The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on April 29, 2008 at 11:31am — No Comments

Julie Lindsay Mobile Computing Resources revisited

As we move towards the end of the year and madly try to plan for next year I wish to remind you of the E-Learning wiki and the resources that have been started. I also wish to thank the teachers across the school who have put in time and effort on the Mobile Computing and Online Learning teams and started the conversations that will move the school forward. Stay tuned for news about more opportunities for input. The E-Learning for Life… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on April 26, 2008 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

Julie Lindsay Thinking about Thinking

It is late and I am just about done with thinking today...however I did find some great resources and made some tired but mildly perceptive comments on my blog this evening that I would like to share with you. These relate to thinking, classroom reform, Blooms Digital Taxonomy resources........if you are interested, follow this link to Thinking about Thinking. Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on April 14, 2008 at 10:57pm — 3 Comments

Suzanne Fletcher Visiting Schools in Bangkok

My first ever blog. Jannie K and I were lucky enough to have the opportunity to go to Bangkok early (prior to the NESA conference) to visit two schools. International School of Bangkok (ISB) and Bangkok Patana. The purpose of these visits was to observe ISB and Patana's use of teachnology in the classroom. ISB have a laptop program and Patana do not, apart from this difference, their use and the support they receive for the technology is very similar. I am in the process of preparing a document… Continue

Posted by Suzanne Fletcher on April 12, 2008 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Peter Westall With a Vengeance

I should HATE Technology ...with a vengeance! "It's all about SHOPPING!" I said in the year 19-something...and until recently I haven't changed that opinion. "Aha!" the Evangelists will say...."I knew he would convert.' Pardon the Apostasy, but at the moment I feel that the shopping catalogue is not looking so attractive and I have decided to stick with what does the job - more than adequately! (That's a reference to an Apple Rant /Vista Rant and a salutation to E-bay where I do some shopping,… Continue

Posted by Peter Westall on April 11, 2008 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Sean Davis Web 2.0 PD afterglow

How many of us have managed to consistently integrate one or more of the ideas that we were exposed to at the PD into our classroom? I would love to hear so that we can learn from eachother. Sean Continue

Posted by Sean Davis on April 8, 2008 at 10:23pm — 9 Comments

Sudha Konnanath Our Stories

The February issue of School Library Journal selected www.ourstories.org as site of the month. This site is an online story sharing jointly founded by UNICEF, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and Google. It is an interesting site as the students can record and publish the stories from their elders/storytellers or tell their own story. The site also has interview guidelines for students. It is worth exploring and may be our students can put Qatar on the Google… Continue

Posted by Sudha Konnanath on March 30, 2008 at 12:25pm — 1 Comment

Kirsten Holland Holidays holidays, here in Doha

Hi Guys, anyone staying here for these holidays interested in getting together for a pot luck at the park with the kids? I was thinking Monday night here on Lot 2. Let me know if you are interested. I was also planning on a trip to the zoo later in the week. k Continue

Posted by Kirsten Holland on March 29, 2008 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Nerine Chalmers Story-telling and language learning with Andrew Wright

Andrew Wright’s PD sessions last week were both entertaining and thought-provoking. The topics were: Helping students to make stories, Using stories, Using Games. Andrew is a storyteller, language teacher, author, illustrator and teacher trainer. His blog has links to the presentations he gave at QA, and to many other articles, as well as to full text copies of many of the stories he tells. Andrew’s visit coming, as it did, hard on… Continue

Posted by Nerine Chalmers on March 29, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Peter Westall A quaint ol' Cornish town...

Out for a "Boys Behaving Badly" evening when I had to put the glass down and actually go silent for a minute. "We're going on a holiday and to have a look at some schools in Cornwall. It would be nice to find a quiet, little village school away from all the hassles and administrative interference etc etc.." I blinked and wondered if such an idyllic place existed anymore - I hoped not. I thought about what I had read recently concerning "Technologically illiterate teachers" and I reflected upon… Continue

Posted by Peter Westall on March 19, 2008 at 6:34pm — 2 Comments

Nerine Chalmers In Praise of QA Educators

The thoughts shared by Julie in her blogs on the Dangerously Irrelevant Site and cross-posted on her own E-Learning Journeys blog http://123elearning.blogspot.com/ are inspiring, encouraging, interesting and empowering. The tools referred to are available to us all; the concepts are exciting and Julie’s enthusiasm is contagious. Julie’s overview of the privileged position in which we find ourselves as members of the Education City fraternity is clear and challenging. Julie’s blog post – “What’s… Continue

Posted by Nerine Chalmers on March 16, 2008 at 8:15am — 4 Comments

Julie Lindsay Baby steps for beginners and Web 2.0 resources

Yes, I know I should be writing reports..........is that why the Ning is so quiet this weekend??? A couple of essential resources came across my desk today: Web 2.0 is the Future of Education in Tech learning Blog and written by Steve Hargadon Baby steps fo… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 14, 2008 at 6:43pm — No Comments

Julie Lindsay Technology Literacy and Standards for Teachers

I want to share this blog post with you all. It is an award winning blog post in that it 'won' the Edublog 2007 'Most Influential post' award recently. It is authored by Karl Fisch, co-author of 'Did You Know' and author of 2020 Vision. Both of these videos are essential viewing as we embrace 21st c… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 14, 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Kirsten Holland Book, idea or website

Share one book, idea or website that inspired you this week in your teaching. I just finished reading 'Eat, Pray, Love' by Elizabeth Naert, you may have seen it on Oprah. Made me realise to slow down, enjoy this thing we call life, and to do so we must nourish our bodies, brains and hearts. Hence my huge smile after playing in the netball game against our students on Tuesday. Continue

Posted by Kirsten Holland on March 12, 2008 at 12:25pm — 2 Comments

Nerine Chalmers ECIS Triennial Librarians’ Conference, Berlin – Going Places 28 February to 2 March 2008

This was a gathering of librarians from schools across a wide geographical area. IB schools were in the majority. The emphasis on students’ research, information gathering and use, and the use of Web 2.0 tools in creating and sharing information was particularly pertinent, and gaining insight into current research, resources and practice in the field was very useful. Link to conference handouts, and relevant urls: (Some links are still to be put up, so it would be worth returning…) http://read2… Continue

Posted by Nerine Chalmers on March 12, 2008 at 7:00am — 7 Comments

Julie Lindsay A Sense of Urgency: Final thoughts from ASB Unplugged

ASB Unplugged ASB Unplugged
[W… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 8, 2008 at 5:35pm — No Comments

Julie Lindsay ASB Unplugged: Planning and Managing Change

Some notes from the first Keynote at ASB Unplugged. Planning and Managing Change Dr Paul Fochtman, Superintendent ASB Dr Scott McLeod, Associate Professor, Iowa State University, blog "Dangerously Irrelevant" and video "Did you know" Christopher Reeve video (for inspiration) "In the future so many amazing things will happen in the world. What amazing things can you make happen" Thin… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 8, 2008 at 5:02pm — 1 Comment

Julie Lindsay ASB Unplugged: Establishing and Managing your Tech Help desk

This session was run by the Sr IT Manager at ASB. The aim of the session was to share what ASB have developed in terms of IT Support and how they support learning throughout the school with well maintained infrastructure. This session helped to crystallize the IT Support solutions already documented at Qatar Academy to support our needs. It is imperative that QA have ownership of it's own IT Support service desk and be able to manage infrastructure. Unt… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 8, 2008 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Julie Lindsay ASB Unplugged: Meet Dr Scott McLeod

[This is a simul-post with E-Learning Journeys] … Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 8, 2008 at 4:31pm — 1 Comment

Beverley Stubbs ASB Unplugged: Web 2.0 Tools for Administrators (and others)

WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR ADMINISTRATORS Scott McLeod, Iowa State University Scott is one of the leading academic experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues in the US, for administrators. He is the Director of UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education CASTLE www.schooltechleadership.org 1. Wikis (QA has a subscription to http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net where professional collaboration is already taking place. In addition, teachers such as Dav… Continue

Posted by Beverley Stubbs on March 7, 2008 at 1:23pm — 2 Comments

Beverley Stubbs ASB Unplugged - Notes from Keynote Addresses

Keynote 1 Getting the Traction to Move Forward Stewart Crais - Laussane Collegiate School, Memphis (have had a 1:1 laptop program for 7 years) • Are we listening to our students? Are we too busy? • Think about how we can benefit our students? Who are they? • They are collaborative, networked, self directed, globally aware • Leadership is needed to make change happen • Ask the hard questions... Do we have the right people? Who is on the bus? • Collaboration is of vital importance • David… Continue

Posted by Beverley Stubbs on March 7, 2008 at 1:15pm — 3 Comments

Philip Roberts Yet more adventures in VoiceThreading

Ok, so by now you'll have realised that I'm seeing some potential in this VoiceThread thing. In terms of student responses to it, as with any new resource, their enthusiasm may simply be a reaction to its novelty. One thing's for sure - the ease of use and simplicity of the concept mean that it's the kind of ICT that anyone can quickly start using with any grade level. As important is the fact that an audio visual representation of concepts (and of students' understanding) can be useful to any… Continue

Posted by Philip Roberts on March 7, 2008 at 7:55am — 2 Comments

Peter Westall Aargh! Why did I stick my head up?

...that's what I asked myself. I wrote about what I'm doing and I wished I hadn't! It is just so much easier to have a fabulous, albeit chaotic, enthusiastic time in my classroom so WHY did I feel I have to go and BLAB nonsense on a site where everyone is Louis Vuitton....that just popped in my head because I was carrying a ridiculous little box with microcomputers in it as I was leaving the school today and a member of the Parent Group gave me a bit of a "dig! I didn't care as I had managed to… Continue

Posted by Peter Westall on March 5, 2008 at 4:40pm — 2 Comments

Sudha Konnanath Books recommended by Kim@library

Though I like browsing the internet and trying my luck at the new technologies, what I love bestest (a word frequently used by my kids – I correct them, they just ignore me) is to curl on the couch with a book. So for book lovers like me….. We have added the following books to senior library professional collection. If you want them, please let me know ASAP. Already 2 books are loaned out. A copy of these will be available in the primary and ECE libraries by next week. 1) Blogs, wikis, podcas… Continue

Posted by Sudha Konnanath on March 5, 2008 at 2:23pm — 2 Comments

Philip Roberts Further adventures in VoiceThreading

After sharing my first VoiceThread with the intended audience (my Grade 11 Biologists one or two felt confident enough to leave text comments while others made largely irrelevant noises into their microphones), I decided to embark on a sequel. Yesterday we took the entire Grade 6 for a day trip to the Schools Without Walls site al Al Khor. The 5 classes rotated around 5 separate ecological activities. The activity I lead challenged the students (in groups of 3 or 4) to illustrate an "Ecological… Continue

Posted by Philip Roberts on March 4, 2008 at 12:54pm — 1 Comment

Peter Westall How NOT to "Wiki" - but I wanted to...

Our current Central Idea is "the production of food is a complex process." (This is IB PYP talk) While students have been finding out about "___________of the world." Just insert what you are interested in... To date we have potatoes, chillis ( a hot favourite....coiuldn't resist that) and cabbages. My cochlear implant kid decided to do noodles - ok, fine. We started 5Wiki.wikispaces.com which is our first entry into Wikis. Now in the back of many sing… Continue

Posted by Peter Westall on March 4, 2008 at 12:52pm — 1 Comment

Sam Liberto ASB Unplugged-Mumbai-Final Thoughts

After 4 days and many workshops at ASB Unplugged, one inescapable direction emerges. Movement toward a one to one computing environment is inevitable and it’s only a question of "how long" and not "if"it should happen. To quote the keynote speaker, Scott McLeod, “Taking a pencil away from a child will soon be the equivalent to not allowing laptops in the classroom.” We have a golden opportunity at QA to distinguish ourselves as the premiere technical literacyschool in the region by moving to a… Continue

Posted by Sam Liberto on March 3, 2008 at 3:52pm — 2 Comments

Julie Lindsay Closing session ASB Unplugged

We have finally made it to the closing session! We have everyone in the main room (about 90 educators from over 20 schools internationally) with a panel of leaders, teachers and students talking about issues and learning from this event. Themes/questions/ideas from panel: - What does innovation mean in your school?? - Who are your 'technology' leaders in the school and what training have they had? - This is important stuff....it is not a gimmick, it has to become visible and embedded - Every… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 1, 2008 at 12:29pm — 2 Comments

Julie Lindsay Professional Learning Community importance

I am in another session at ASB Unplugged where Scott McLeod and David Quinn are taking about data driven decision making. One concept that has emerged is the need to foster and support a PLC (professional learning community) within your school community. We need to get past the buzzword of this and set up effective PLCs and learn from each other in order to share and discuss learning objectives. Let's not waste opportunities, let's share data and be… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 1, 2008 at 10:34am — 7 Comments

Mike Boulanger Literacy & Laptops

Some thoughts/questions I have after the session - If technology tools/resources have such a proven positive and dramatic effect on improving literacy: What are we doing in the classroom, how are we embedding these resources/tools in the classroom, curriculum? Where is the curriculum leadership for literacy/writing embedding resources/tools? What is the curricular plan for developing/researching/implementing technology tools or resources? Reading, Writing Coordinators? Let's talk...and engag… Continue

Posted by Mike Boulanger on March 1, 2008 at 9:15am — 5 Comments

Julie Lindsay Leading and Planning for Technology

Essential elements for technology planning Presented by Dr David Quinn, Assistant Professor, University of Florida (Educational Administration and Policy) Why do schools need a comprehensive and living technology plan?? - Reasons: to know the vision and where you are going, to support spending requests for hardware, software and PD - Does the QA Technology Plan address these? We do not have a definitive plan for the next few years yet...we have a skeleton/framework Successful technology… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on March 1, 2008 at 7:40am — No Comments

Julie Lindsay Demonstration of DyKnow software: Mathematics class!

ASB use DyKnow for online learning and classroom integration of technology. This demonstration is by a Grade 9 teacher. 1. Boardwork A maths problem is put on the screen, a multiple choice answer set is given, students have 45 sec. to think of the answer. Students have this on own screens as well as on class screen. Answers are polled and collated on main screen. Choice of pie or bar chart to show results. Students then have time to talk to partners about answe… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 29, 2008 at 1:12pm — 4 Comments

Julie Lindsay Watch 'Did You Know? 2.0' with Arabic translation

I put a link to this in a previous blog post. Here it is embedded in the E-Learning wiki on the Viral Videos page. This was played by Kim at the Primary school PD at QA recently. One of the co-authors, Dr Scott McLeod is here at ASB Unplugged. Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 29, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Julie Lindsay Building a Culture of Responsibility: Mumbai Day 2

This session looked at implementing a laptop program. Before we started Beverley demonstrated the use of the overhead power sockets with our new MacBooks! Responsible use and building a culture of mobile computing. Developing an Acceptable Use Policy is important and highlighting responsibility and discipline. Must have reasonable rules. ASB send this out with the student handbook, discuss with parents and bring a si… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 29, 2008 at 12:29pm — 4 Comments

Sam Liberto In the Sub-basement in Mumbai

Here I am with the technical group at ASB Unplugged. It is standard to stick this group as far as possible below ground. But, the technical people at ASB are soooooo skilled. They are knowledgeable and responsive. They are the core of support that makes the laptop project at this school work. They have set up a very robust network with well tested equipment. EVERYTHING WORKS (although with so many teachers at the conference we overwhelm some of their nodes). We got to see the ASB students in act… Continue

Posted by Sam Liberto on February 29, 2008 at 11:13am — 1 Comment

Beverley Stubbs Teaching the Tech Skills??

There is an interesting discussion from classroom teachers saying that you don't have to teach the tech skills. She was giving the example of students making films following a study of Julius Caesar. The students felt all the movies would have been the same if the teacher had directed them about using Movie Maker. The teacher should MODEL making the movie but not necessarily how to do it. The value of atomiclearning.com was reiterated. PD - multiple workshops offered - teachers, with appropriat… Continue

Posted by Beverley Stubbs on February 29, 2008 at 9:50am — 1 Comment

Beverley Stubbs 21st Century Teaching and Learning

We are still in the workshop discussing a 21st Century Skills Game matching classroom examples with 21st Century Skills (Digital Age Literacy,Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, High Productivity). The skills are on the site http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm (My faltering attempts at ning posts demonstrates development of my basic literacy skills.) Continue

Posted by Beverley Stubbs on February 29, 2008 at 9:31am — 1 Comment

Julie Lindsay The Information Society is Here: Mumbai Day 2

This blog post is being 'moblogged' (mobile blogging). Apologies for typos and brevity. Keynote ASB Unplugged Day 2 Dr Scott Mcleod Blog: Dangerously Irrelevant (creator of Did You Know). See the version on dotsub.com with Arabic translation. Technology is changing us and our lives - mobile… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 29, 2008 at 6:30am — 9 Comments

Mike Boulanger Managing Change -- Scott Mcleod -- Dangerously Irrelevant

R at the forefront of a shifting change... Building a plane while flying it...continual turbulence...difficult but a must travel road. The heart of change: Shift paradigms - Define Initiative - Foster community buy-in - Deploy gradually 3-5 yrs - Develop long term support. Continue

Posted by Mike Boulanger on February 28, 2008 at 7:47am — 3 Comments

Julie Lindsay Mumbai Day 1

We all had some trouble getting the MacBooks on the network.....Safari not working..had to install Firefox. ASB network very locked down. But full steam ahead now for 'moblogging' (mobile blogging) Opening and Keynote Speaker #1 Address by Superintendent of ASB. He is quoting Tom Friedman (The World is Flat) and Dan Pink (A Whole New Mind) already! Talking bout the function of schools and the need to sift, sort and connect and deal with the abundance of information. ASB (American Schoo… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 28, 2008 at 7:09am — 7 Comments

Julie Lindsay On our way to Mumbai

Beverley, Sam, Mike B and myself are on our adventure to the ASB Unplugged conference in Mumbai. We will be meeting with about 20 other schools and people from the Laptop Institute amongst others and attending many wonderful sessions on mobile computing. While here we hope to crystalize the strategic plan for mobile computing at QA. Many thanks goes to the team of teachers across the school who have al… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 27, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Julie Lindsay Primary School PD Wednesday February 27th

A message from Diana: On Wednesday afternoon, the PD session will be devoted to a presentation and discussion of the meaning of the 1-7 grading scale. After teachers began sharing personal documents they had developed to assist in personal, team or parental understanding, many interesting discussions took place about exactly how the school interpreted the official 1-7 descriptors. After extensive discussion in the Coordinators’ Meeting and with many individuals, we have now developed an officia… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 26, 2008 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

Philip Roberts Adventures in VoiceThreading

After the recent PD days, a Primary colleague brought VoiceThread to my attention. http://voicethread.com The idea is simple but has a lot of potential. Essentially, this site allows you to create online (flash) slideshows to which subscribers can add text, voice or video comments and also sketched (animated) annotations. A slideshow with a voiceover is nothing new (you can certainly create such a thing in Keynote and export it as a flash animation or QT movie) but the Web 2.0 spin that… Continue

Posted by Philip Roberts on February 25, 2008 at 2:55pm — 5 Comments

Kirsten Holland Passwords??

When was the last time you changed your password for your school account? After a very interesting discussion with Salah from QF IT he recalled their latest PD with an IT guy from Amercia and internet security. He encourages everyone to change their passwords at least once a term if not monthly. Some organisations have regulations which actually require people to change their passwords regularly, such as Charles Sturt University in Australia. To protect your work and email please change your pa… Continue

Posted by Kirsten Holland on February 25, 2008 at 1:34pm — 5 Comments

Julie Lindsay Social/Professional Networks: Participating and Navigating

Are you still a little unsure what this 'Ning thing' is all about? As part of the Web 2.0 video tutorials on Atomic Learning there are two that you should watch: - #12 Participating in social networks - #13 Navigating a social network website Don't forget, the QA login for Atomic Learning is: ID: qataracad PW: doha Also, are you ready to join more networks? Here are some you may be interested in: -… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 23, 2008 at 8:58am — No Comments

Julie Lindsay GIS and Geography and Google Earth Resources

I am reading with great interest the responses from Jane and Ana so far re Google Earth implementations in their classrooms in response to Kirstens blog post Ideas you have tried. This resource on GIS and Geography came in an eSchool News email today. It says, ".... this special collection of news stories, best practices, and… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 22, 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Ana Santos Literacy Resources for K-2 and Resource Teachers

I have added a great website to our Resources page that is a free online early literacy program that helps educators teach early literacy skills—in particular phonics, phonological awareness and vocabulary. Please check it out at http://elearning.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/RESOURCES Continue

Posted by Ana Santos on February 22, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Kirsten Holland Ideas that you have tried.

I am very interested to hear what ideas, resources or activities people have implemented since the PD last week. Let us know how they are going, and what is really working. Kirsten Continue

Posted by Kirsten Holland on February 21, 2008 at 1:43pm — 4 Comments

Ana Santos Technology and Literacy resources

Literacy is Priceless is a terrific blog with all kinds of reading resources for grades K-3. It highlights great things on the internet, such as interactive websites for kids, online books, and resources for teachers. http://literacyispriceless.wordpress.com/ I have also added this resource to http://elearning.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/RESOURCES Continue

Posted by Ana Santos on February 20, 2008 at 9:32pm — 1 Comment

Julie Lindsay Sharing resources

A new collection of Web 2.0 tools came to my attention today. This is one of the best collections of tools I have seen! E-Learning Reloaded: Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Info Junkies, Researchers and Students Also, don't forget about our resources wiki for e-learning. I encourage yo… Continue

Posted by Julie Lindsay on February 20, 2008 at 7:39am — No Comments

Nerine Chalmers Global Projects

An Australian site with links to some interesting global projects: http://ozprojects.edu.au/ Global Education Visual Stories Challenge is one of them. Nerine Continue

Posted by Nerine Chalmers on February 19, 2008 at 11:08am — No Comments

Mike Boulanger Keeping the momentum going -- Supporting teachers

There is still a buzz around the school after these great PD days. People are talking, taking small steps, big steps and plunging right in to 21st century learning. I'd like to start a dialogue about specific ways we can keep this energy going, NOW!. Not in a month, or next year but NOW! What can I, all of us and the school do to help everyone continue to develop our 21st century elearning, personal learning networks, and curricular embedding of technology tools? I've made some suggestions direc… Continue

Posted by Mike Boulanger on February 18, 2008 at 9:20pm — 4 Comments

Ellie Bowe Sports Days

I'm taking advice from Kim and practice learning by lurking (and trying to figure out why it won't upload a picture!)... In the meantime, while the Sports Days are still fresh in my mind - any comments? I have talked to some people already but I guess this is the right place to collect comments and feedback so that next year will be even better. For example, should we make it a whole day event? Continue

Posted by Ellie Bowe on February 17, 2008 at 4:01pm — 6 Comments

Kim Cofino Presentation Resources

I have had an absolutely fantastic 2 days here at QA - thank you so much for inviting me out to work with you! I know that many of you are anxious to access some of those resources I shared during our training, so here they are! If I've forgotten anything, please leave me a comment and I'll add it! Videos: All the videos I showed in various sessions are now posted in the Videos section. Blog posts I referenced during our sessions… Continue

Posted by Kim Cofino on February 14, 2008 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Sudha Konnanath