Alan November

Learnt heaps this afternoon by Alan November. Not only about new collaborative tools, especially for primary school students but also about how important it is to ensure that your audience understands and practices what you are explaining.http://educationalchangemanagement.blogspot.com/2011/04/purposeful-work-alan-november-ted-talk.html

This link goes to a tedtalk by Alan and captures the essence of today's talk. He is such a clam presenter and involved the young students of OLMC Mt Pritchard. Food for thought re the next PD I run and involving students in the session!! A challenge but really purposeful.
I learnt about easywhoisit to find out if articles on the net are bias and factual. The importance of teaching digital literacy and actually knowing what and why things are on the screen. Much learning to do here.

all thing PLC

http://www.allthingsplc.info/wordpress/?p=1006

click on this link to read interesting Q and A regarding assessment and PLC's. All over the world teachers are grappling with how to provide the best feedback to students and to assess fairly and in a meaningful manner.