Connected to who, or what?
Having participated in two more ETMOOC sessions this week, the conversation has returned often to the notion of ’connected learning’. We have talked about Personal Learning Networks, the place of...
View ArticleMy PLN … on fire!
Over the Aussie school holidays, I have managed to connect with a couple of teachers who will be teaching the same level as me. I tweeted out just after Christmas that I had just read a brilliant book,...
View ArticleDigital Story Telling
Our current topic in ETMOOC is Digital storytelling. It is the beginning of the school year in Australia and I wanted to get an essential agreement in place with my new 5/6 students. To engage them in...
View ArticleETMOOC inspiration – digital story telling
Have just had fun sitting in the hairdresser’s chair, creating a 5 card flicr story. Enjoy! Five Card Story: Learning is like … a #etmooc story created by Mj0401Mary flickr photo by cogdogblog flickr...
View ArticleTennis Time!
Today I was inspired by some of my fellow “etmoocers” to try and create a gif. This is new to me although I have embedded one created by someone else onto my classroom blog. My gif tells the story of a...
View ArticlePlaying with Storybird
Storybird (www.storybird.com) is a great website which enables you to select from an extensive range of beautiful images to create your own story. You can search for images by themes and then arrange...
View ArticleLearning to Storify
Another #etmooc task under my belt … my first storify. I decided to storify some of the tweets from the past week that demonstrate my PLN at work via twitter. I get so much from interacting with others...
View ArticleThe Power of Collegial Discussion
As part of the planning team for the RE Eastern Network, we spent quite some time last week talking about the place of dialogue in Religious Education. Our first discussion was about what constituted...
View ArticleHonk if you love life!
Our Inquiry and RE units this term have focussed on the concepts of community and our place within the community. It has been a rich and diverse unit and we are now at the stage of expressing our...
View Article#etmchat 6 Word Story
One of our final tasks for #etmooc is to create a 6 word story prior to #etmchat on the 27th March. The topic is: “What does it mean to be an educator and digital citizen? What is our special role?” I...
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