Poem battle
We have been poetry battlin’ (not slammin) with Year 7 with the help of Triptico Student Selector Plus. That is the beauty of Triptico, it is so very simple, so very effective. I keep saying it, ‘Triptico – just add …
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Attendance Black Ops to writing opiate
Anyone else missing a few students from class this week? Year 10 and 11 boys in particular, as of November 13th? Can we expect some bleary eyed teenagers to return to class next week? [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/petewharmby/status/269785040488128512″] Let use the dollar figures shall we, …
Marking books, assessments and mistakes
I have been marking this morning. Marking students work always teaches me something about my teaching, something about my students, and almost always leaves me mulling over the process and relationships involved learning and teaching. Having started the class with ‘Who …
Lesson Plans, Maps, Journeys
A rather busy week has meant I was sifting through a ladened Google Reader. For the most part it is a headline filtering although I find myself clicking through, digging deeper into more posts these days. This weekend a ‘lesson …
IF is a big word – it’s just literature
Why should IF be considered by English Departments? Many thanks to the delegates in the workshops at #CASWales12 for really exploring this question with me, it was a topic of debate in both sessions. The simple answer is that it …
High impact interviews with student voice
Today I lead ‘high impact interviews with student voice’ as part of our Vice Principal interviews as the opening activity. Here is how we delivered it. Before Meet with student voice, student leaders and invited them to take parent and …
Socrative
Socrative has been on my radar for a little while are it appeared in RSS feed in a few different places. It falls under a category of web based student response systems, and so far is one of my favourite. It was …
Expectations
One education input leads to the next, from RSS article, to Slideshare presentation, to practitioner blog. The technology barrier excuse definitely exists in education but after a long day teaching myself how to write interaction fiction with Quest 5 I …