Microsoft Sucks (and not in a nice way)

This evening has been one of those frustrating events where you begin to question whether you really know anything about computers at all. Having had a really pleasant last couple of days introducing a range of teachers and students to the wonders of blogs and wikis I came home tonight to do a little updating [...]

The Irish Whiteboard Experience?

When I was full time in a classroom I was fortunate to have access to an interactive whiteboard. Initially we had quite a steep learning curve climb to get the board working efficiently. (We did the board installation using labour from within the school community working from the support documents that came with the board, [...]

I Want A New Image

One of the problems in starting up logs with students is that they want to inserts images and they don’t care where they get them from. To often the easiest source is to do a Google images search and choose the first picture that turns up and insert into the blog. Now the biggest problem [...]

Why Is It Soo Much Hassle?

One day a week I go back to my old school to “do things with the computers”. Sometimes it is fun stuff that involves working with students such as introducing grade3-4 students to the joy of Garage Band. This is great fun and so enlightening both to the students and the teachers who are generally [...]

Teacher, The Tube Isn’t Playing Right

Having been a user and a real fan of TeacherTube for some time now, I have been rather disappointed last three or four times of sorts to use it. My problem is that when I go to upload the videos.  The upload process runs all the way through to the final stage, which then times [...]

Oz -Teachers’ Advice For Newbie Marie

As I have mentioned before on this blog, I am a member of the great oz-teachers listserv. Ever so slightly more regularly the posts are taking on a Web 2.0 focus which is encouraging. So it was on the weekend that Marie, a distance education teacher posted a query as to how to facilitate a [...]

Psst, Want A Quickie Email??

Every so often, almost as penance, I conduct hands on sessions where I lead novice teachers through setting up a blog and/or wiki. Without fail, the biggest problem that holds the process up, (apart from the various portals having technical issues or undertaking an upgrade), surrounds teachers not being able to access their email from [...]

Science Revisited Plus

Today was day 3 and the last day of the national science teachers conference and it was time for my second session. Unlike yesterday where I attracted a grand audience of five today 23 participants were expected. Scanning the list of those who had nominated to come along I was quite chuffed to see some [...]

Scientific Presentations

Here I am at the national conference for science teachers in Australia CONASTA57 and as I have done at the past 3 conferences I am offering a couple of sessions this time around the Web 2.0 theme. Of interest as I perused the program was that despite the fact that there were quite a range [...]

Presenting In The Flow Gram

Though I haven’t blogged for some time again ……. and I have more than six drafts almost ready to publish, I just had to slip this one in before the others because it is sooo interesting. For some time now I and my wife, who works in another branch of education, have been playing around [...]