Life goes on

Life has to go on as normal - or as near to normal as possible in a country where there has been a national disaster declared!

On Friday at school we had a 'teachers-only' open mic session to encourage kids to take part in the fortnightly sessions.  The theory being that if teachers are willing to get up on stage and do something new that will encourage the kids to as well. Here's my contribution:

Always Useful

I keep finding more ways to use Evernote. I use it for school, home, and now that seesmic is connected i use it to collate tweets

in reference to: Welcome to your notable world | Evernote Corporation (view on Google Sidewiki)

78 photos

i've been working on the photo challenge for 78 days - today is #79 - here are my photos so far



cc licensed flickr photo shared by dragonsinger

Langwitches Blog � Taking Student Blogging to the Next Level?

Langwitches Blog � Taking Student Blogging to the Next Level?

Here are some more great ideas - i particularly like the signpost for commenting and i think it will suit my students very well

A GeekyMomma's Blog: Ten Things Your Students Can Blog About Today

A GeekyMomma's Blog: Ten Things Your Students Can Blog About Today

Another important thing for students is guiding them into things they can blog about ... this has some great ideas

Kidblog.org

Kidblog.org - About Kidblog

This looks to be a practical way of introducing kids to their own choice of blogs - where they can have freedom to create their own content ...

testing time again

i'm trying out this blog again - i've left it to languish somewhat but with the new draft blogger layouts and the built in chrome extension maybe it will work for me ...