Part of the series: Global Issues in Education The 21st century is to content creators what the industrial revolution was to factory workers. The demand for creative thinking is both a challenge and an opportunity. Sometimes failure is an essential element of deep practice. Next analyze your errors, noting exactly where your performance didn’t match [...]
Archives for March, 2010
10 Cool Tips & Resources for Text Response by Judith Way
Part of the Cool Sites series I developed the Preston Girls’ Secondary College Reading Wiki to show and share with students and teachers how web 2.0 tools can inspire students to respond to set texts in a more creative way. Making book trailers Filming their own ’60 second recap Making animotos Creating toondoos Using Flickr [...]
Syllabus or Silly-bus? by Tom King
Part of the series: Global Issues in Education One of my teenage sons used to refer to the syllabus in his high school course as a “silly-bus.” In many ways, in today’s ever-changing world, it still is: “Silly”; a learning “Bus”, if you will, and far too often to a new destination, or at least [...]
What Did They Tweet?
Say Good-bye to March 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet weekly series! Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media. Video: The Amazing Youtube Choir Social media continues to amaze me. I believe a new online collaborative art form has emerged in which several people contribute [...]
18 Resources for English Language Learners to Learn via Blogs
Part of the Cool Sites series Perhaps your students are like mine and are not quite ready to make the leap to begin blogging. I work with very young language learners and adult language learners. Many of my adult learners will not put the effort into blogging but that doesn’t mean they will not try [...]



