Having written twice in the last few hours about a list of things to try this year, and knowing what my memory is like, I thought I ought to set one up. This page on my wiki will serve as a temporary dumping ground of things I would like to try, both general ideas and […]
8 Way Thinking
A great idea from Ian Gilbert via the Independent Thinking website. 8 Way thinking takes Gardner’s MIs and creates a thinking scaffolding based around: Numbers Words People Feelings Nature Actions Sounds Sights So, in the example quoted on the website, if the topic being studied was beer, students might come up with: How much beer […]
Creating facebook profiles
Followed a Tweet to this excellent blog post by Tomy Cassidy explaining his idea for getting students to create fake facebook profiles from everyone/thing from Lucifer to a chalk headline! This would work just as well for historical characters of course, which reminded me of a thread I had seen a while ago on the […]
Seeing details in main Google Calendar screen. Can it be done?
After a summer where I have touch pretty much no school work, and largly ignored Twitter, Facebook etc, I’m now feeling fairly chilled and need to start getting ready for the start of the school year. I’m using the same method as last year* to set up my planner on Google Calendar, and got to […]