IWB support group

There is already activity over on the “Bear & Chook” books rap blog site. This book rap, based on two picture books, “Bear & Chook”, and the newly-released “Bear & Chook by the sea”, is aimed at students in Early Stage 1 (Kinder) and Stage 1 (Years 1 & 2). It officially commences Term 4 [...]

The most difficult aspect of most presentations? What bits do I leave out?
My “Early Years Conference” co-presenter, Cath Keane, had prepared eleven of our PowerPoint pages, I’d added my own hyperlinks to the twelfth and last slide, and we only had 50 minutes or so to fill anyway. We also had plenty of time before [...]

Tomorrow I’m speaking at Day 2 of the 2008 Early Years Conference: Learning, Growing, Achieving, presented by NSW DET. Day 1 was held today, but my talk session – co-presented with current Scan editor, Cath Keane, isn’t until tomorrow.
Cath has put together a PowerPoint presentation about our recent ventures into the world of Web 2.0 [...]

The NSW DET rap, Identity: Sharing Our Stories for Stages 3 and 4 is underway, the second such rap to be presented in a blog format (hosted by the School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit via Edublogs) rather than the traditional email and listserv arrangement.
It’s not too late to sign up a class group. Even [...]

Sometimes you just can’t be in several places at the same time! (Even when uploading posts; it should have still been 21st May when I posted this!)

For our very successful Simultaneous Reading of the picture book Arthur, the teachers had voted to do the readings in three sections and three locations, but I wasn’t able [...]

Issue #1 (April) 2008 of the AGQTP NSW newsletter has its focus on Interactive whiteboards: connected for learning, and contains several great articles on NSW schools: 
* “Working mathematically with interactive whiteboards” at Illawarra Grammar School, Figtree (p 2)
* ”Not just all play” with Belmore South Public School and innovative ways to teach writing, especially narratives (p 3)
* [...]

Era Publications have set up ”Arthur online”.
You need to register at http://www.in2era.com.au/ by filling in the form at the bottom of the web page. You will be able to login and preview the book from 14th May in preparation for the National Simultaneous Reading event on 21st May. Great for large groups.

Welcome to our brand new blog at Edublogs. I’m your host, Ian McLean, teacher-librarian at Penrith Public School (NSW, Australia), representing the schools in our recently-formed professional learning group, known simply as “IWB2″ – until we think of a better name.
The purpose of this blog is to have a space where teachers, teacher-librarians and PSP [...]