If you’re thinking of starting a blog for yourself or with your students, there are lots of good resources available. In this post, I’m going to draw upon some of the resources from other blogs in an attempt to structure a “blogging 101” guide for UWCSEA teachers. What is a blog? A blog is short…
Month: November 2011
2011 Global Education Conference
We’d like to promote a wonderful professional development opportunity available online, focused on Global Education, for FREE. It’s time for the 2011 Global Education Conference! The conference kicks off Tuesday at 12:00AM with a keynote from Alan November and continues all week with online sessions every hour around the clock. This schedule link is in…
The ups and downs of social networks – new research.
Trimpers Cobra Roll by Scott Ableman/ The Pew Research Center, as part of their ongoing Internet and American Life project, have just released a report called Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites. As the title implies, the latest research provides us insight into the widely varying experiences that teens have when participating in…
Learning with Laptops and Lanschool
Laptops in the hands of our student present an enormous array of opportunities for learning. They also present several significant challenges that we must work to overcome, especially for those of us who are relatively new to a one-to-one learning environment. There are several things that a teacher can do to maximize the potential for…
Show Me The Learning
The Digital Literacy Coaches have put together a site for today’s Professional Learning day centred around ways we can demonstrate student and teacher learning. Please click the link below to access the site. https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/show-me-the-learning/
Adding a Picasa Slideshow to Your Blog
To get started, make sure you have the iPhoto to Picasa Web Uploader installed. 1. Select the photos you would like to share from your iPhoto Library. 2. Click on File -> Export 3. Click on Picasa and make sure you have Better Quality selected. 4. Sign in to Picasa with your Google Apps account. 5. Click…
iPhoto to Picasa
Picasa Web Albums Plug In All teachers have a Picasa Web Album account with their gapps account. Go to https://picasaweb.google.com and log in using your gapps email and password. To make it easier to upload photos to Picasa you can download a plug in for your iPhoto. Go to http://picasa.google.com/mac_tools.html to download the plug in and follow the instructions:…
Blogging in the Infants
It is almost Blog time! We are ready to take our blogs that were started previously and; a) add in the school logo b) add in a personalized header (Thanks to Mandy and Sinead, in the communications department, for creating this template for us) There are many steps to this process but most steps are…