I had such fun talking to a great bunch of English teachers today at the ETA NSW annual conference about class blogging, but I ran out of time and didn’t get to the show the last and best clip. Here, in the students’ words, they tell you what they think about the value of blogging. It’s…
This post is a summary of the resources and references from my English Teachers’ Association of NSW 2014 presentation, entitled “Explore, Excite, Engage: Class blogging in English”. View my full Prezi presentation by clicking on the image below. Don’t forget to check out the sample blogs that I have created, which include how to set up…
This is a super quick post to share my Year 7 English program “Our World Our Future”. The key concept is contextualisation, and the unit has a cross curriculum focus on sustainability. Blogging is embedded throughout the program. Resources/handouts are also in the document. View with Slideshare below (you can expand it onscreen), or download…
I am presenting at the English Teachers’ Association of NSW Annual Conference 2014 next weekend on class blogging. For the participants (and those of you who can’t make it) I have set up a quick reference “How to” about setting up a class blog on edublogs.org. This is also on the sample blog site that…
In planning the implementation of the new NSW English Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum last year, our faculty program writing team decided that we needed a unit for Year 9 with a focus on the concept of “perspective”, particularly to develop our students’ sense of empathy. We wanted the unit to explore the cross…
I created this presentation to share at “The Green Room” – a video conference organised through the Gibberanong Environmental Education Centre. It outlines how I have explored the cross-curricular priority of sustainability by class blogging and project-based learning, with a literacy focus.
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