Happy Girls photo by @klbeasley This is the third rotation of handing out laptops to our families. Our process has evolved quite a bit from it’s inception in August 2011. Here are is an outline of what we do, why we do it, and how it’s working. Context: We are an independent international school with around 4,000…
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Dealing with distraction, 5 tools to help you get things done
We have chosen to give our students in grade six upwards their own Macbook. This has obvious benefits to their learning allowing them to create, collaborate and communicate with digital tools that they always have at their disposal. However, as Spiderman said: There’s no question that digital tools can be tremendously distracting. Our students have…
doing more with diigo
Diigo is a great way to keep track of all of your bookmarks in the cloud so that they can be readily pulled up on any device connected to the Internet. Yes, and… there’s a whole lot more that it can do. Diigo works best when it’s tools are integrated right in to your browser. …
Making Learning Visible – Mobile Video in PE
How do you know what you look like when performing a physical skill? This is a question I ask myself again and again on the golf course when the round ends up going south. Was it my elbow, my grip, am I shifting my feet, not keeping my head down? For anybody who’s watched an…
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/
5 Fab Ideas for Effective Online Research
Over the past few days, UWCSEA has been lucky enough to have Apple Guru Kathleen Ferenz visit our school. She has been a fabulous resource for me personallyas a Digital Literacy Coach, but also for the groups of teachers she has worked with. One of Kathleen’s many strengths is in Literacy, and she has given…
Taking attendance for a a class that’s not on your timetable.
Occasionally, teachers will be asked to cover for colleagues who can’t themselves be there. In these cases, you need to be able to mark attendance for a class that’s not on your timetable. Here’s how (thanks to Hemantha Dissanayake for the screen shots). How to take attandance for another teacher from United World College of…