New Bloom’s quick sheets
I have just updated my Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy quicksheets. These are resources I have created as a quick and easy summary of the six different taxonomic levels of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. They...
View ArticleCOETAIL workshop – reflection
last weekend I was in Japan working with the amazing Kim Cofino and her COETAIL (Certificate of educational technology and Information Literacy) cohort. tweetpic image from @mscofino The 2 day workshop...
View ArticleNelson – Link learning cluster conference
Thursday, I was down in sunny Nelson for a one day leadership conference with the link learning cluster, working with Charles and Allanah and the principals and lead teachers of the 20+ primary schools...
View ArticleI was there… Virtually
This week has been hectic, not that that is much different to any other week. But on Wednesday night I gave a presentation to teachers on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. The session was 50-60 minutes with...
View ArticleNew Rubric – Storyboard for video
I have been working on a new rubric for storyboards for production of a video. My students are developing an advertisement and part of the production process is the development of a suitable storyboard...
View ArticleUnit Planning, the 5C’s
As teachers we know that we need to have unit plans. This is a standard expectation of teachers, in many circumstances we are also expected to have lesson plans as well. We often hear adages as...
View ArticleThinking about Assessment part 1
Thinking about assessment For us as teachers, much of our life revolves around assessment in its various forms. It can be so invasive that it seems to dominant all we do in the classroom. We have seen...
View ArticleStarter Sheet – Diagnostic assessment using Google Forms
Diagnostic assessment is one of the three main forms of assessment we use. It is critical element of good teaching practice as it values past learning and lets us work out where our students are as we...
View ArticleStarter Sheet – Diagnostic assessment using a Moodle Quiz
This is the next starter sheet in the assessment series. This is slightly more specialized in terms of the software being used, but the principles being applied are the same no matter what the testing...
View ArticleExamination time
Its that time of the year again when staff and schools roll out examinations as a way of assessing the students learning. Examinations are a useful tool in summative assessment, but of course they are...
View ArticleMigrating from Edorigami.wikispaces.com to Edublogs
With the closure of wikispaces sites, I am migrating the key resources from the edorigami to my some what ignored blog site. I will set up the key elements as pages. Enjoy and I hope they are useful
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