Our Sticky Post January 30, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in fun, learning, miniLegends, safe and savvy.Tags: blog, blogging, learning, links, miniLegends, student directed, student initiated
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What is it?
click the shape to see more - if that doesn’t work visit this post
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cross-curricula/student initiated learning, higher order thinking,
springboards, questions and links … all in one comment! 
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2007 miniLegends pages below (worth checking)
Our 31 day Blogging challenge
Our 6 word challenge post and page
Choose Your Own Adventure - voicethread and post
We are trying to find an easy way so all other posts made this year
appear after this post.
This should also help us navigate within our blog and to other sites.
Tricky huh?
Here we can add and edit whatever and whenever we want
Links to some of our other posts (our archives):
- ACMI Competition and Samorost
- Checkers - Our First Animation
- Term 3 Surprise
- Nova Response
- The (Nova) Surprise
- Local and Global Networking NETWORKING Connect Across the Globe
- basic blog building blocks
- Our Very First Post
Links to previous miniLegend blogs and posts:
- http://alupton.wordpress.com/ 2006
- right now this site is filtered in South Australia!
- we can add post links for other visitors later
Any other links and tips we want here:
- Google nlvm and click ‘I’m feeling lucky’ - National Library of Virtual Mathematics
- Pacman - a Bluearth Game
- Creating Experts - Scan and Broadcast (now we also use our interactive whiteboard as well as all the computers on our desks to broadcast)
- the school section of edna (thanks Lynley)
- http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/
- previous post pages 2 3 4 5 Why not choose one at random?
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Al, I am very interested in your miniLegends program! It always amazes me how teachers are able to open up the class to go from teacher-directed to student-directed. I hope to learn some way to allow myself the assurance that this is okay by the time I become a certified teacher!
What superb work! I will be showing your voicethread site to a lot of teachers if that is alright?
Thanks Karlana … it amazes me how some teachers feel they have the right to ‘close’ down a class in order for it to be solely ‘teacher-directed’. That surely is a false sense of control - a safety zone that is possibly understandable yet undesirable. It is one of those instances where, I believe, we can be pedantic. By becoming ‘facilitators’ we respect both the learning and the equally variant students. It’s more than okay to be familiar with and offer a variety of methodologies. Perhaps it doesn’t ‘hurt’ the kids to experience different teaching styles over the years. Just don’t leave the kids out of the equation.
Thanks Fiona. Go for it. Share whatever you find with others … you don’t need to ask. It’s interesting because the Choose Your Own Adventure (based initially on decorating our door) became increasingly student directed. I was still ‘in control’ but fortunately had done enough explicit teaching on learning (eg styles, why/how to set criteria) and provided enough exploratory play (eg Voicethreads) so the kids were able to negotiate how they would like go about the task …. making my job (being accountable and everything) easier and so much more fun.
hi I’m Allen i just came back from china
how are u guys
in china has lots of expensive stuff
i got a lot of stuff fron shanghai
im coming to school on monday
see you guys there
Cheers Allen