Karen Mills

What fish are you?

2011-06-23T14:57:00.001+12:00

Hooking Teachers on Technology

E-Portfolios for Learning: REAL E-Portfolio Online Academy for K-12

2011-05-27T19:00:00.001+12:00

E-Portfolios for Learning: REAL E-Portfolio Online Academy for K-12: "I found a name and developed a logo for my latest project. Every portfolio needs an adjective to describe its purpose. REAL stands for R ef..."

Facemoods' Online Safety Kit - Little Red Riding Mood

2011-05-21T10:41:00.000+12:00

Seven Reasons Why Every Educator Should Blog

2011-05-19T20:13:00.001+12:00

Seven Reasons Why Every Educator Should Blog

1) Practice What You Teach: 2) Archive Your Best Work:
3) Enhance Your Ability to Communicate:
4) Expand Your Classroom:
5) Door of Opportunity:
6) Control Your Digital Footprint:
7) You Learn:

Blogging to Motivate and Promote Literacy

2011-05-15T11:59:00.000+12:00

Presented a workshop at the Tauranga Moana Reading Council Workshop Evening on Blogging. Links to resources created can be found here.

Open letter to Educators

2011-04-09T08:56:00.003+12:00

How many of your students would feel that their schooling was interfering with their education?

Gotta love that Mac

2011-04-09T07:49:00.002+12:00

Don't you love it when you find some new feature that makes you love your mac even more. Thanks to Kim.M for this one.

Want to remove a background from an image quickly?

You could use the alpha tool in Keynote or open Photoshop if you have it.

Did you know that Preview has instant alpha? Simply select the instant alpha tool and click on the background to be removed. Once it is selected. Click Delete.

Dr Suess - I can Read

2011-04-09T07:41:00.001+12:00

What a great idea. Some stars of the future here, I think. Thanks to Juleen from Greenpark School for sharing.

Comic Life as Word Art

2011-04-07T19:11:00.001+12:00

A couple of weeks I ran a workshop at Tauranga Primary on Digital Storytelling using Comic Life. I also shared some wonderful ideas from http://tewhakatipurangahouictpdcluster.wikispaces.com/Comic+Life. Today, I was invited in to share what two teachers and their students had been doing.

The images on the computers are from Nicola Cook's Year 5 class and they had used their brainstorming words about 'Rain' to create a Word Art about it. The other images were created by the ESOL students who had been writing information reports. Their Word Art was a representation of the topic they chose. Amazing work by May Tran and her wonderful students. Thanks for sharing.

Key Competencies and Web 2.0

2011-04-04T21:47:00.001+12:00

Comments4Kids: Welcome to Comments4Kids!

2011-04-04T19:39:00.001+12:00

Comments4Kids: Welcome to Comments4Kids!: "Comments4Kids is a way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on and to get their own posts commented on. It all started when Ca..."

Educamp BOP

2011-04-04T18:24:00.003+12:00

Educamp BOP - Saturday August 13, 10-3pm at School Support Services, Tauranga

http://educampbop.wikispaces.com/Home

Blogger Buzz: Fresh new perspectives for your blog

2011-04-02T09:04:00.000+13:00

Blogger Buzz: Fresh new perspectives for your blog: "Today we’re previewing five new dynamic templates in Blogger that you’ll soon be able to customize and use for your blog. These new views u..."

Think you know how to use Google?

2011-03-26T16:39:00.004+13:00

Spotlight can solve maths problems.

2011-03-26T11:36:00.000+13:00

Scoop.it

2011-03-26T10:30:00.004+13:00

Scoop.it is a new Web curation platform, giving users a personal place to share themed content.

iPad Textbooks Gaining with Publisher Funding

2011-03-24T21:12:00.002+13:00

iPad Textbooks Gaining with Publisher Funding

Inkling is hoping to be the software company to bridge the gap between publisher and iPad providing ease of use, interactivity, social collaboration, and great content. Inkling wishes to end the expense and physical burdens of traditional textbooks.
You can download Inkling and a free chapter here to try it out.

Mr Harmony Sketching

2011-03-22T21:34:00.000+13:00

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

Create sketches using some cool effects e.g. Chrome, fur and web

Try Voxels (Great for numeracy) as well as play with the Bakemono

Check out all the experiments

Starting a Blog

2011-03-22T06:03:00.003+13:00

Starting A Blog

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100 reasons why educators should use blogs

2011-03-20T11:38:00.002+13:00

http://www.onlinedegrees.org/100-reasons-why-you-should-use-blogs/

Turn Your iPad 1 or 2 into an Interactive Whiteboard

2011-03-19T18:12:00.005+13:00

Turn Your iPad 1 or 2 into an Interactive Whiteboard

This has a heap of potential for classes with a data projector and no IWB. Cheaper option than purchasing one especially when you think you are buying an iPad which can be used in the classroom all the time and isn't just going to be stuck to the wall.

Need an iPad 1 or 2, computer, data projector, wifi network and
AirDisplay $13.99 from iTunes and
Ink2Go $19.99 from App store

NZherald.co.nz - Battle of the browsers

2011-03-19T12:34:00.005+13:00

Battle of the browsers

This week's unveiling of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) marks the latest update from the three most popular browsers around the world as they jostle for their share of how consumers will view the internet ... More

Visit nzherald.co.nz throughout the day for the latest breaking news.
Just downloaded FireFox 4.0. Loving it so far. Fast as.

Why Education Needs to Change?

2011-03-19T10:08:00.003+13:00

Why Education Needs to Change: A Student Perspective from Calgary Science School on Vimeo.

eLearning as Part of an Informal Learning Strategy

2011-03-19T10:00:00.004+13:00

Blog: Integrated Learnings: eLearning
Post: eLearning as Part of an Informal Learning Strategy
Link: http://blog.integratedlearningservices.com/2011/03/elearning-as-part-of-informal-learning.html

Jay Cross, known for his informal learning research, tells us that approximately 80% of workplace learning occurs informally. In contrast, only 20% of organizations’ learning budgets go toward enhancing informal learning.

The iTeam Chronicle

2011-03-18T18:23:00.004+13:00

paper.li allows you to create custom digital newspapers about content you are interested in. It is based on either Facebook or Twitter content. Teachers, try out making one about earthquakes or japan so your kids can read what everyone is saying.

Key Competencies in a Digital Age

2011-03-17T21:01:00.002+13:00

http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-at-home.wikispaces.com/Key+competencies+in+a+digital+age

Educator Competency Taxonomies for Year 6-9 - The Language Sets are great. Gives teachers the language to describe the capability of a learner.

http://www.i-learnt.com/Paradigm_Competencies.html

Confident and Connected

2011-03-17T20:41:00.003+13:00

Confident And Connected Keynote Web Version

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Tailoring Testing with Digital Tools

2011-03-17T20:16:00.001+13:00

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/03/17/25assessment.h30.html

Educators and researchers are exploring how to embed assessments into curricula to better understand the needs of individual students. e-AsTTle would be a good example of this.

Mention of e-Portfolios at the end. "We need to get students intrinsically motivated about developing the portfolios," she says. "It's not the kind of routine assignment where teachers tell them what to put into it and what to write."

Jamin Lietze on Ed Talks

2011-03-17T19:11:00.004+13:00

E-Portfolios for Learning

2011-03-16T22:32:00.001+13:00

AAEEBL SLC feb11

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Futures Channel

2011-03-16T20:10:00.001+13:00

Love this site. Great videos that kids will be interested in. Great follow-up activities as well.

http://www.thefutureschannel.com/

Tagxedo

2011-03-16T20:08:00.001+13:00

Created this with Tagzedo. Like Wordle but create shapes out of words. Used the words from our cluster goals. Notice how Teachers and Learning are the most prominent.

Web 2.0

2011-03-16T20:06:00.002+13:00

Starters Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom -

Love Optical Illusions

2011-03-16T20:04:00.001+13:00

Gateshead Granny Cloud

2011-03-16T20:01:00.001+13:00

It just shows you that if you give kids a ‘tool’ and leave them alone they’ll figure out what to do with it. So should we be ‘modelling’ so much? Won’t they get there on their own and have used a lot of skills along the way e.g. problem-solving and collaboration.

2011-03-16T19:59:00.001+13:00

“Instead of thinking of a school as a place where 300 young people attend to be provided with an education, try thinking about a school as a research site, populated with 300 small sized researchers.”
“Rethinking the role of schools as producers of useful and valuable knowledge opens up many important questions. Equally, it positions schools as an important new resource for the community and provides students with valuable experience in serious knowledge work”
Chris Bigum
Computers in New Zealand Schools
July 2003 p. 26

2011-03-16T19:58:00.002+13:00

Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.”
- Unknown

2011-03-16T19:58:00.000+13:00

Thought this was a stunning photograph. Love the hair.

Amazing photo taken from the Port Hills overlooking Christchurch when the quake hit.

2011-03-16T19:55:00.000+13:00