Rob Sbaglia's Blog – June 2011 Archive (2)

Rhodes to Wisdom

In my quest to create a self-paced maths course that enables students to work anywehere between VELS levels 2 to 5, I recently purchased a Wacom Bamboo tablet. I bought this because Salam Khan uses it to make his videos. Who is Salman Khan? Check out the video below.

This week in maths, we are looking at the rather unexciting topic of multiplying fractions. This corresponds to level 3.25 in number in the mathematics… Continue

Added by Rob Sbaglia on June 26, 2011 at 1:21am — No Comments

Built to Last

This has been a great term for our students to be able to use ICT to access expertise. Here are three stories.

Story 1 - The scientist, the biology teacher, and the immunology competition

When one of our Virtual Experts, the fantastic Dr Krystal (a microbiologist in Melbourne) alerted us to an immunology competition, I popped it up onto our forum, not expecting anyone from our school wanting to enter (particularly as our focus is on history at the moment).… Continue

Added by Rob Sbaglia on June 16, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments