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For some reason, my class’s blogs on edublogs are being spammed to frustration!
I don’t want the holidays, the free Nigerian money or the car leases. The friends and the drugs are beginning to look interesting though!
The damage being is being done to my fragile ego and to my willingness to continue to blog! It’s [...]

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I couldn’t just leave them all dispirited!
They had been so intrigued by the shape of the Apodo, though I doubt “appreciating the Apodo design” is a very valid Learning Outcome!  So back to the skipping ropes!
This time - cut the number of ropes, reduce the knot to ‘barely tangled’ and … success. Whoops! Successful Learners [...]

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By and large, using the Oscars to award to “Successful learners” has worked really well, in that everybody is familiar with the concept and the criteria. So, onwards and upwards!
In the multi composite you do tend to have many individuals working at their own pace, on their own things. Time to use the team building [...]

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The Apodo has arrived, much to the consternation of all pupils. P1-4 were convinced that it had something to do with their dinosaur project! My class showed equal ingenuity when asked what creature it reminded them of. What flower it looked like was harder. Which member of staff it most resembled was clearly pushing it!

So, [...]

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I think I’m beginning to understand this, and the more I understand it the more I like the idea!
Create-a-Scape, from Futurelab, is all about getting pupils to turn any place into an interactive sound world. An example would help! Using a portable computer(PDA), they can wander across a playing field, but be on an African [...]

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