To paraphrase what philosopher Edmund Burke once said, learning without reflection is like eating without digestion. In either case you can feed as much as you want to a person but that person won’t leave nourished; it might be as though they haven’t eaten at all. With reflection, on the other hand, critical faculties become…
Category: blogging
Start your new year with a new challenge…
Rope Climbing, Santa Monica flickr photo by Boss Tweed shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license A new year brings an educator fresh opportunities. If you have a blog that’s been gathering dust, or you feel intrigued by the idea of starting one, this post is for you. Join over twenty teachers across seven countries…
June Round Up: The Networked Educator Challenge
“The biggest difference I found was this way in which people are aware of one another while they are learning, and the way in which they connect and build and improve.” Lights flickr photo by Jule’Kill shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license We have made it to month two of our five-month educator-portfolio challenge….
May Round Up: The Networked Teacher Learner
Our five-month challenge started here, and now we are lucky to have our first rotation of what Silvia Tolisano refers to as ‘Mulling it Over.’ …an online learning community is a manifestation of connectivism as knowledge is distributed throughout the community of people and devices. A blog would serve as a connectivist tool as it…
Getting Started with your Class Blogs
Each infant class has been set up with a class blog accessible from the school website (www.uwcsea.edu.sg). The purpose of the blog is to share the learning that is happening in the classroom with parents and the wider community. 1. Log in to the school website and click on the East Learning (Note: The left…
Adding a Picasa Slideshow to your Blog
Follow these instructions to embed a Picasa Web Album to your blog. 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 Allow access….
Publishing on the Web
Why?Having a class blog allows us access to added benefits to enhance student learning. Some of them include: Being able to share student learning with extended families/friends around the world. As an International school, our students come from many different places, and being able to share what’s going on in (and out of) the classroom…
Learning about blogs through blogs.
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…
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:…