Juan O'Shea's Blog (15)

As it is a new year and I will be teaching a year 2 class this blog will no longer be used.

Keep a eye out for my Google sites classroom blog - coming soon :)

Last week I had a chance to chat with some IT Teachers from other international schools in Singapore.

The main highlights were:

Google Apps…

Had a great class with year 5/6 using Cmap.

This an excellent tool for creating concept maps - we used it to introduce a unit on transport.

Checkout http://cmap.ihmc.us/

We are always evaluating ourselves and our lessons, today's PD is about how I used SurveyMonkey to formally evaluate myself last term.

Examples of Informal evaluation

• Lunch room discussions with teachers
• When speaking with your students, as a whole class or individually

Why you use it:

This is often done as part of 'Formative Assessment' - to see how you or your students are going so that you can…

I have some email etiquette PD for todays staff meeting - for more information see http://www.learnthenet.com/learn-about/email-etiquette/index.php.

The main points about email etiquette is:

• Clearly summarize your message in the subject line
• Don't use the CC (Carbon Copy) function to copy your message to everyone…

Happy days,

I just setup our test Moodle server.

If you want to know more about Moodle checkout www.moodle.org.…

Rather than update my links page I will start using the blog function to put up info