tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77384237593993107852011-11-20T19:49:11.964+13:00Trials and celebrations integrating technology in the secondary English classroom.Kelly Faulknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12620559872627897635noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7738423759399310785.post-74070434069061168692011-10-30T19:01:00.000+13:002011-10-30T19:01:23.400+13:00

so, the kids were pretty rapt with the qr code; even my juniors, when they saw it, wanted to scan it and see what it did as well. i was thrilled to have them so interested in something going on in an english classroom. however, it wasn't without its bumps. firstly, if the kids didn't have an android phone, they didn't have an app store (or, at least, not an icon labelled "app store" or "app

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another great conference behind us, and the best thing is that after 3 very long terms, and virtually no break these holidays, i am totally stoked to get back to school next week!there's nothing better than getting out there with like minded peers and sharing ideas. not being much of a creative thinker myself, spending time talking with and listening to others is an important facet of my own

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My presentation is this afternoon. This is my first time using Prezi, and I'm a little nervous! List of resources in Diigo for teachers in the presentation.Teachers, remember, you only need to take ONE thing away with you to start integrating technology into your life. Whether you read a blog or start a blog, play a game or create a game, you are getting started!Keep up your involvement. You are

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are you a secondary teacher? are you in an ICT cluster? then you are likely going to ulearn11 in rotorua next month, and boy, are you lucky! ulearn is a fantastic conference, with a wide variety of workshops to choose from and wonderful things to hide your credit card from in the vendors' room. (go ahead, get something. i have to be frugal because i just got new toys.)ulearn is great in that it

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These are the Year 9 doodles. I may post the commentaries later, but I'm feeling the pressure of NCEA exams. Numbers 9 and 22 were chosen by the class via a Google Forms vote to be submitted. I may use both of my "teacher's choice" votes in this class as well! I hope you enjoy them. Doodle4Google 2011 View more presentations from Kelly Faulkner

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http://www.google.com/intl/en_nz/doodle4google/index.html yesterday, carl lidstone posted that google is offering the doodle comp to nz school children again this year. i am so excited about this! my year 9 students entered the competition back in 2009, the last time it was offered in nz, and my students last year competed amongst themselves with the north american "football" themed doodle, as

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NB:  this is not an education-related post. you are forewarned! so, to no surprise, my family is reluctant to leave their facebook cocoon and make the move to google+. so i thought i'd take a moment and describe why i was so willing to make the leap as soon as i scored myself an invite (thanks @teachernz!). it's not news:  i've never liked facebook. nope, not ever. it's clunky, hard to manage,

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NB:  I wrote this post three weeks ago, but have only today posted it. Hence the timeline weirdness. I am still hesitant to post it, but after reading essays from other classes, feel it is too important an issue. I spent the weekend marking junior mid-year exams. After two terms of teaching formal writing, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, parts of speech, and two extended texts, my kids

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nz teachers recently spoke about photographing student writing on the ict in english listserv. this concept attracted me, as i love using my phone for pix, video, etc, and bluetoothing whatever to my lappy in seconds.  i thought it would be a nifty technique to trial, as i am currently thinking of how to revamp the writing programme at my school. i thought i'd give it a whirl this morning, when i

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so, late last week i tweeted that my class was going to create fake facebook pages for characters from our novel, using the tool known as Fakebook.  the premise is pretty simple:  enter the name, create the bio with simple, straightforward "coding," populate a friends list, and add status updates and comments.  you can add photos, links, and videos as well.  this tool was created for history

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i don't know how i ended up at this site, but i loved the pages i saw there. i don't have nearly enough skills (or decent photos), but took a stab at it. what do you think? i think the word cloud is too much. i was trying to do a digital scrapbooking type of thing, but clearly creativity is not my strong suit! (it does scroll down some.) cheers, kelly

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so, my last post was about using flip video in the classroom.  and no sooner had our department bought a whole set then the mashable article came out about them being discontinued. i have a couple of thoughts on this.  one, i find using the video recorded easier with my own version of the flip video. i have a VADO i bought it at ulearn09. since it automatically saves files in .avi, i find it

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most people who know me know that if you want to reach me, you should ring my home number (or email).  while i have a relatively fancy, expensive 3g phone (i won some money a couple years ago and bought a sony-ericsson w190 [not the blackberry i went in to get]).  the $500 price tag seemed extreme to me, having last "bought" a mobile in the states, where they are free with your plan, and the 

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our hod made the decision to spend some of our budget last year on 15 flip video cameras (yay!). i am in charge of tomorrow's pd session, seeing as i'm the only one who has used one.  i bought my own at the 2009 ulearn conference in christchurch.  best buy ever!  however, i didn't want to remake the wheel for pd, so i've spend this afternoon doing some 'net research ... and what i've found is

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i have been awfully busy lately writing posts that don't get past the edit stage. but this is a quickie. despite all my protests, i may be on the market for an e-reader after being offered one for xmas.  while i may not ever read books on it, it may suit for magazines, newspapers, etc.  anyhow, i'm willing to try the darn thing and see if it changes my opinion! (helps that it's free, as i

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i haven't posted in a while, mostly because everytime i looked at my year-end post (still in draft form) it was depressing.  i have no access to a lab this year, and so am "stuck" using only my laptop and data projector in my classroom.  ...that's how i felt for awhile, anyhow. when i started out with this bad attitude, i found it made my teaching more difficult.  i tried having a year 10 class

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just a quick post - this is a word cloud of all my tweets last year.

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after ulearn09, i've tried to take baby steps integrating some of the things i learned about. one of the most successful has been google docs. i started using google docs before the conference, mostly as a secondary back up source, and for opening attachments and sending documents. i can tell you google docs is quick and easy, and the 1-document collaboration is terrific. since the

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Well, we've been back at school for nearly 2 weeks now, and I am keen to get my boys in a lab to try some things, though this will likely have to wait until the seniors go on study leave. I've used my nifty little video camera a LOT, and I can't tell you how much nicer it is for that process to be so much simpler! Before, I had to 1. finalise video 2. upload to converter 3. convert 4. drop into

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Wow! I'm sitting here with my feet up while my husband watches Australian Idol, suffering from something close to jet lag or culture shock.  I can't believe I'm back at home after the wonderful time I had at ulearn09.  Between meeting tweeple, learning about new uses in IT, and just plain having fun, I'm rather sorry to be home! Last night about 35 of us waited outside the Southern Comfort

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Another amazing day at uLearn.  You know, it's not just the wonderful speakers and presenters and vendors with cool toys; it's meeting up with other teachers who are all doing inspirational things with their students that is so much ... I'm at a loss for words here! I had such a great day today, and the weather was grand, again!  Went on a lovely walk through Catherdral Square and the river/

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It's been a full day here in Christchurch, and there are about 2000 people here!  The vendors room has been jammed, and I had a great chat today with Ian from Toshiba. He told me which laptop to ask for (demand!) for next year :O) This morning Anne Tolley, Education Minister, gave an exceedingly ho-hum (with no technology whatsoever, hello irony!) talk about how teachers "MUST" integrate

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Here I sit in downtown Christchurch.  The conference hasn't even officially started yet, and I'm already having a great time! I flew out this afternoon, leaving a freezing cold and bloody windy Napier behind.  The Christchurch sun warmed me through the airplane window even before disembarking.  The shuttle was quick, and in it I met another Hawke's Bay teacher (Onekawa Primary)!  Small world,

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i cannot believe it, but we have been editing our videos for 2 WHOLE DAYS! sorry to shout, but if you have visited here before, you will know that it took me 2 months just to get my kids access to movie maker AND have it work at the same time. i am so excited, i actually remembered to bring a camera and take some pix!here are my brilliant sweeties, hard at work.they look determined, eh?  we are

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so...how's it going? every year i forget that term 3 is just as, if not more, full on than terms 1 & 2! this term i have a student teacher (that's a good thing, lol), am making films with the year 9s, and am participating in the WikiEd project.WikiEd Wiki Ed offers Learning4Content: free workshops for teachers to learn how to use wikis. workshops are 2 weeks and take you gently (very gently!)

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spent a period in the lab yesterday. we are undertaking two competitions this term, the google doodle nz and the nz police land transport and safety anti-drink-driving short film. so yesterday we went to the lab to review some of our requirements, choices, and options. at the same time, some went out to record their personal videos for their blogs, while i converted existing videos and plonked

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since the nzateconference, i've been busy trying out some different things. I've compiled a list of all the cool stuff from the conference, or, at least the things that weren't blocked at my school. you can see them here. just this weekend a whole bunch of teachers were on twitter (who knew?), and i was able to join in the live webcast of edmodo 3.0. edmodo is a microblogging platform for

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the nzate 2009 conference was inspiring. i really enjoyed meeting you all and seeing you again at the different technology workshops.  i hope now that you're home, those of you who had your email addresses blocked will now activate your twitter, diigo, and blogger accounts and start participating! those of you who were able to access your accounts need to continue posting.  i look forward to

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so...as i mentioned earlier this year, i am using blogs and wikis with my year 9 accelerates.  i feel a little like i'm floating through dark space without a connection to a mother ship, but i'm trying.  one never gets anywhere without trying (and failing), right?  that's what i'm telling myself, anyhow.   my biggest concern is that i don't know exactly how my students should be blogging (is

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as a technology advocate (advocate for, if not proficient with!), i find myself constantly assuring other teachers that they too can use technology in and outside of their classrooms, but with little opportunity to *show* them how. today i'd like to recommend websites for teachers transitioning to using tech. the following have been very, very helpful to me as i pick my way through the morass

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a few months back doug belshaw (https://twitter.com/dajbelshaw) tweeted that he'd just blogged (http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/01/25/my-computing-history/) his computer history, and asked others to do so in a reply to his post. having a think, i decided that i would reply to doug (who's only 28) and here is what i wrote: =============================================>>now i feel very old! i

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backstory in a nutshell: we started the school year with more internet blocking than ever, thanks to a new non-school internet blocker that blocked everything by category, so we had no access to news, media, music, radio, etc. we finally had a meeting at the end of week 3, with our headmaster and all the people concerned about the problems with access at school, which totaled about 12(on a side

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hello again. in case you're not in NZ, you should still be aware that a new copyright law is close to being passed that may disconnect your isp. how does it work? if another server accuses you of downloading their material without permission, your isp will disconnect your service. yep, that's right. no due process, no real cause, you're screwed (no, i don't know how easy it will be to simply

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so, i've been so darn angry the last two weeks that i haven't bothered to write about it, hoping the situation would resolve itself. well, it's not going to resolve itself, and i just have to vent before making an appointment to speak with the headmaster. last year i attended Ulearn08 with our headmaster and some other folks from my school. the net result was that this year we were going to

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i have a love/hate relationship with advertising (you'll see in an upcoming rant i'm hesitant to publish just yet). there are several nz ads that just tickle me; they are so clever and funny without needing to be gauche.  here are a couple that i enjoy, and i think you will too:Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town:there's also: Sandpitenjoy. and welcome mr helmsing! thanks for being my #1

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so, i 've just come from a meeting with our headmaster about availability of technology.  i've written this before: our school blocks heaps of useful websites (bbc radio?!) and student computers have java blocked, which means, of course, that many many activities are simply not do-able.   for example, i recently designed a level 1 research unit (year 11) on careers that included a surveymonkey

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it seems like this technology business has more barriers than doorways.  with a barrier in front of each idea, it's no wonder teachers are slow to catch the technology train.  it's simply so much easier to keep doing what you've been doing instead. i'm still in the process of having the year 9's research their topics to create newsmaker reports.  one of the technology problems is that our

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my goodness i'm behind.  senior exams are looming, and with 12 class meetings to go before they go on study leave, i am like a one-armed paper-hanger.  at an all-boys school, teachers are innundated with plenty of last minute "what can i do to pass" conversations with students... but enough of that. after ulearn (and i thought the ulearn twitter page was great!), i am more envigorated than ever

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Am currently sitting in a web 2.0 session at uLearn08.  some exciting stuff.  don't know how much of this will be viable for me in the classroom, due to blockage issues.  what to do about that?  how do you handle your school's web blocker?

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well well, it had to happen - it always does, doesn't it? yes, a nasty virus came down the network and infected my machine, even with avg 8.0 and spybot. tech wiped the hard drive, so i lost EVERYTHING on it, and if i hadn't been playing around with technology over the last couple weeks, i'd be devastated. i've always been pretty good with backup - almost everything work-related is saved,

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haha, i figured it out!  whoo-hoo!  now, if only i had a faster home connection, i could add more.  however, i will have to be satisfied, tonight, with 1. perhaps tomorrow i will figure out how to keep up with my person. however, now i'm going to make a huge upload list for picasa and go upstairs and have a rest.

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so today, someone i know on twitter made a blog post that said, basically, "if you're not participating, what are you doing?"  i thought, "you know what?  you're right!"  i want to find some people in my line of work, or who enjoy the same outside-work things (such as horror films, ::evil cackle::), and read their blogs too.  i get emailed links to blogs of all kinds every week...but now that i

Kelly Faulknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12620559872627897635noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7738423759399310785.post-74151502701380487302008-09-05T15:47:00.001+12:002008-09-05T15:47:20.126+12:00

so...thought i'd get on the bandwagon before it left, for once! d/l chrome yesterday, and have to say, i like it! set up igoogle just like i had it, and although there were a couple of glitches, such as installed gadgets disappearing or changing order randomly, it is going swimmingly. the only thing is that i was so wrapped up in having fun "decorating" my new homepage, i had zero motivation

Kelly Faulknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12620559872627897635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7738423759399310785.post-44715077569136166662008-09-04T08:07:00.001+12:002008-09-05T09:17:12.949+12:00

yes, it's true - i heard it yesterday. all my technology finally gelled and i was able to ::shock, horror:: upload some pix to picasa. wow! what an achievement! i was able to add captions, sort, and even send out invites to famiy before the whole thing went fubar.let me revel for just a moment. at work, with the good internet connection (yes, it's true, i was naughty!), i managed to upload

Kelly Faulknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12620559872627897635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7738423759399310785.post-74736928453947943092008-09-02T07:34:00.001+12:002008-09-08T19:18:54.369+12:00

**apologies, this was supposed to be saved as a draft**spent a LOT of time over the weekend downloading/joining several things: twitter (have already found at least one other teacher to follow), second life (don't know what i'm going to do with it if i can't have my own island with a zombie apocolypse, lol), and a bunch of ppt games that i may someday have time to programme for my own needs.

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alrighty! this blog is my attempt to document my experiences as i learn to use more ict and in turn use it to teach in my english class. please do not talk to me about being a teacher and not using capitals. genre counts - blogs are personal diaries, and i can write however i feel like expressing myself at the time :-P i'm keeping this blog to follow my progress, as i have found using ict in

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