Google Wave

After reading Hey Milly's blog I really like the sound of Google Wave and am going to ask her to invite me! Any thoughts anyone?!

Bruce Hammonds Blog

After having this blog recommended to me by 2 colleagues I decided to have a read and can say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Bruce Hammonds blog has some recent posts with very interesting information and ideas around National Standards and the Revised NZ Curriculum. I identified with the following image as I think about education and the shift that all involved need to make as we consider changes in technology and try to prepare learners for success in their lives:




I am currently very interested in upskilling myself in inquiry learning as I have been involved in several inquiries this year and feel I have not quite got there! Even although I have tried very hard! I am looking forward to 2010 and having more attempts at this exciting and powerful approach to learning and will be keen to centre my personal learning goal around this area.

Hyperlinking in planning

After a request via a comment on my blog I am sharing some of what I do with hyperlinking in my planning. I find this invaluable for allowing quick, fluster-free access to files/documents when teaching. As I teach Year 0/1 the children don't have a hugely long attention span and it can get a bit tricky if they have to sit for long periods while you're searching for things in your My Docs! I link to other Word documents (e.g Lt Plans, assessment record sheets, other weekly plans such as reading and maths off my master daily plan etc), websites, Kispiration, SMART Notebook, powerpoint, images off my plan.

Above are screenshots of my weekly reading plan and the underlined words are the linked text. To do this highlight the word(s) you want to create the link on and do control 'k' or insert hyperlink for PC computers and then search for the specific document/file or copy and paste the url for an internet site.