Teacher benefits of wired learning

While the focus of digital technologies in the classroom seems to be largely on student use and how technologies can play a part in learning, I think one of the other really obvious benefits of moving teaching and learning online is what it can offer teachers in terms of organisation, assessment, communication (with students, colleagues, parents and the wider world of education providers), lesson and unit planning, record keeping etc etc.

Some sites worth looking at with regard to this idea:
glogster EDU (you will have to pay to get the really useful, quality features, but I reckon it's worth it if you plan on teaching full-time next year), and
edutopia (George Lucas moves from Star Wars to star charts).

Will be posting more useful teacher-centric resources as I find them.

Digimuve

This coming week in my English Method class, we are focusing on digital technologies in the teaching of English. Here is a fabulous website that has been provided as a resource in our readings this week - its focus is on digital teaching and learning experiences. Well worth a look, particularly the video of Joel Klein and Sir Ken Robinson talking about 21st century learning and new school models.

Electronic discussion boards

Here's an interesting article about using electronic discussion boards. It raises a few important questions about the purposes and processes of using ICT in the classroom. You'll have to log in to your Uni Melb account (via the link) to see it.

Where is the technology exactly?

Oh, I see.