Welcome to my blog

Hello Sandrine, Tom and Matt. Welcome to my Digital Learning Blog. This blog is a way for me to reflect on my own learning, explore and engage with web 2.0 technology and hopefully exchange learning.

zoho

Zoho is an excellent way to create and save all of your documents online. It means that you can work anywhere there is a internet connection and you don't need to worry about loosing your usb stick.

teaching resources

I think most teachers know about these resources but just in case you dont try out these:

Slideshare

Scribd

They are useful if you are looking for resources on specific texts. Just type in title and run a search and you should get some pretty good results, Try Romeo and Juliet or Nineteen Eighty-Four.

film techniques

Here is a link to a great website which explains the grammar of film and TV.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html

reflection on blogging in the classroom

Whatever you don don't let the students use their personal emails. They make up ridiculus names like: sandy_sexybaby487_robins@hotmail.com or Paul_badarsed_MOFO_the_DJ_blasterman_58932@hotmail.com. And if that's not bad enough they write it down wrong and you end up with an error message or it has never worked and they never check that particular email.

The best way is to get a list of their sensible school emails and set the blogs up yourself so that you know that they work.

I will be doing it the second way now after trying the first way.

Visual wordmap dictionary

Here is an incredible tool that can be used in the classroom. It's called Visuwords and its a sort of graphical dictionary come definition map. All you do is punch in the word and search and it will come up with a map of all the definitions, parts of speech and their relationships. The map is colour coded so it's easy for visual learners to see how the same word can have different meanings depending on its context within the sentence.

web.2 identity

Our VCE English context is Identy and Belonging. I am putting together a folio of images so that students can get a visual representation of the context and to bounce some ideas around about Identity and Belonging as well as for visual writing prompts. I thought these two images are relevant to our students who are usually pretty web.2 savy.