This spring has been an amazing journey for me as I have ventured into two totally different and challenging areas
When students tell you they are bored – who is responsible? Teacher or student?
Who is responsible? I recently stumbled upon this conversation “When students tell you they are bored can we blame the
Could the Days of Wikipedia Being a Banned Research Source Be Over?
It is well known fact that for many years most teachers have been telling students that they can not, under
Lesotho farewell ceremony!
Thank you! Our stay in Lesotho passed by too quickly and the last day was both wonderful and sad at
Instant America
Instant America Did you know that over 3 billion Google searchers are done in a day? That 1 in 4
Collaborating with technology!
When arriving at Mamoeketsi primary school for the first time, we could not believe how we were greeted! The whole
Asking the right questions
Day two of our visit to Mamoeketsi primary school is completed and we are having an amazing time here! 4
Peter Senge – what schools need to focus on now!
Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, Senior lecturer at MIT and Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning shares
Teaching peer review of writing
Written project: Peer-reviewing (also called peer-editing) means people getting together to read, comment on, and recommend improvements on each other’s
TED2012 remixed
It’s time for TED 2012 The miracle of your mind is to see the world as it isn’t” (Kathryn Schulz
Why videos go viral? Can we all be stars?
Background Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from
Keeping students engaged in a 1:1 environment
Creating Students’ Survival Guide to the Web I recently wrote a post about the world of Infotention at Voices of
What is blended learning?
Here, Khan uses his trademark “chalkboard” sketching approach to explain how the idea of blended learning — combining technology like
Election 2012
Election 2012. What you need to know about the primaries! Scholastic offers an interactive web-page with activities that should be
25 web 2.0 tools for teachers
Richard Byrne has a great web-page called Free Technology for teachers. In one of his resent posts he shows the
