UWCSEA Teachers

"  For Kane, video is also a key to the project's success.--  "Improving teaching requires adult behavior change.  Imagine trying to get someone to quit smoking by showing them a video of a bunch of happy nonsmokers … and yet that is the way we do professional development for teachers, by showing them some third person teaching instead of showing them their own work." According to Kane, teachers need to see and analyze their own efforts, and then discuss with their supervisors what they are doing well, and what they could do differently to improve. This can be done by showing teachers their own videos and by providing feedback that is related to student achievement. Heather Hill, an associate professor of education at HGSE, developed a rubric for guiding classroom observations that will be used to help score the videos. Project organizers hope the effort will help lead to a new approach to professional development. "We are trying, said Kane, "to get people to quit smoking by taking them into their closet to smell their own clothes."

Great website on the intersection of learning and technology

Neat little infographic about the future of Education.

This template was made by Tyler Sherwood, principal of Chatsworth East: With so many expensive classroom walkthrough software solutions, I decided to make something simple and easy to use for my own school. I can use this to get in and out in under 10 minutes (walkthroughs are intended to be 3-5).

Excellent video explaining Creative Commons and its role in today's shared culture.

Interactive whiteboard activity using singaporean currency. Can also select other currencies too.

Good videos

excellent recommended site for internet safety

We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Great info on set up and large deployments

Up coming events at the Science centre

Apple link on how to make ePub files with Pages.

Funny video about watching people enter things into Google badly!

Good intro for kids re pop-ups & chain emails.

This FREE workshop is for parents, both the tech savvy and the less technically inclined, who would like to develop family expectations around the use of technology to play, learn and connect. By David Truss

"Here are my free downloadable audio books - Enjoy!"