Bangkok Teachers' Network

Had a very thought provoking session today with Kathleen Baertschy from Concordia and came up with these ideas and questions:

• Importance of making memories
• make time for stories
• make connections
• As a learner, I like to know where I'm going
• Actively participating helps me to learn
• There is a crack in Everything, That's how light gets in (Leonard Cohen, Anthem)
• It's not your experience which is important, it is what you do with it.
• Teachers and children have to develop trust and you can do this through telling stories, including about yourself
  

Whiteboard

Stumbled onto this site via twitter and tweetdeck. Has lots of features which I didn't know about, some seem obvious after you have read them, like writing over text using white pen and then erasing when using the slide in class (tip 9).

This site also has some great primary whiteboard games and links.

Why should BPS try to use enquiry based learning?

Diigo, Blogger, Link and Learn and Twitter

Jackie, Colin and Ben were reviewing diigo bookmarks and talked about how it compared with the BPS link and learn system:

• easier to use - single button press
• more powerful - tagged and so allows greater search capability

Ben showed this blog and was excited to see the feeds from the diigo site had come through...set up last week.

Ben also mentioned his month long experience of twitter. Following the right people definitely saves time.

Jackie will talk to John about the possibility of monitoring usage of link and learn.

Could we use social bookmarking better at BPS?

Technology Blog

Have a look here if you want some easy to follow help with technology in education. I had a look at the video for setting up a wiki using wetpaint and found it informative and simple. May have a go...

Try TED

I've seen it before but found it again. Some great ideas about lots of things. Follow the link for teaching section of this bank of video ideas.