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Effective posts
What makes an effective post often depends on the reader. Some of you may enjoy reading long pages of writing in paragraphs, of course. Yet other people enjoy having the visual aspect in a blog post –...
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Page spring cleaning
For the third activity in the teacher challenge, we are asked to look at pages. As you can see, on my personal blog, I only have an ‘About’ page which I have updated last night. (Learnt how to use...
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Zoom out from my image
One of the students in last September’s student blogging challenge suggested using images to zoom away from. Here are some examples to look at and then in your comments here, you can zoom out from my...
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Embedding media
In ‘Kick start your blogging’ activity 6, we have to embed some media in a blog post. I love trying out new things with students so decided to create a ToonDoo cartoon. I had been to the site before,...
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Staff IT training
I have offered some IT training to staff at school over the last year. Occasionally, people have asked for my help but this year I decided to ask them to fill in a survey I created using Google docs –...
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My Edublog Award nominations
Long time since I have posted on my personal blog, but now it is time to share my nominations for the 2011 Edublog awards. Having run the student blogging challenge, I have noticed some excellent blogs...
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Quality meme
Over the last week or so, a meme has been circulating about quality blogging and commenting. Silvia from the Langwitches blog asked Kathleen Morris to continue the meme and hence it came to me from...
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Hello blog long time since I visited
It is a long time since I have used this blog. You will notice I have now retired from teaching after 35 years. But…… once a teacher always a teacher. I work one day a week teaching teachers about...
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Time to get back in the swing
Already the first month of the year is nearly over and it is time to get back to organizing the student blogging challenge which I run twice a year. I am taking part in an #etmooc at the moment where...
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Connecting through Kiva
About the time I retired at the end of 2011, I heard of Kiva from my brother. What is Kiva about? It is a cycle where you make a loan of $25 to someone who has applied through a Field Partner in their...
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