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Brittany Pietras commented on Anne Mirtschin's blog post 'Using elluminate in the classroom'
Hi Anne! I just talked about Elluminate in an Education class; I had never heard of it before. Your post really helped me to understand its effectiveness and various uses in a classroom. Thank you :) 
Dec 3, 2011
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Hello Anne! I think your edublog challenge is drawing many more members here. It certainly has brought me back. I always check for events, but haven't connected or blogged here lately. I always send people here to sign-up, and your challenge…
Aug 16, 2011
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Thanks so much, Anne. Again, I appreciate the tips on how to get started in such a "big place." Kind regards, Tracy
Aug 11, 2011
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Hi Anne How do I get an invite to see Steve in Melbourne when he comes with Classroom 2.0 Cheers Junita
Jul 25, 2011
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Anne Mirtschin replied to Abdelouahed OULGOUT's discussion 'The Impact of Cultural Attitude on L2 Learning'
Abedelouahed, do you use skype? Do you know how to use skype? What time zone are you in? I am from Australia, so our time zone is not so good to connect with the other side of the world. However, we are in the timezone gmt+10. There are many…
Jun 23, 2011
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Anne Mirtschin replied to Abdelouahed OULGOUT's discussion 'The Impact of Cultural Attitude on L2 Learning'
Abdelouahed, this is a very interesting discussion. What do you mean by L2? As our world flattens and we are able to connect and communicate more with global classrooms of all cultures, how do you see this fitting in. My classes and I love to…
Jun 21, 2011
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Anne Mirtschin replied to Steve Hargadon's discussion 'Introductions'
Hi Grace Welcome to classroom2.0 There are many resources shared here, discussions in progress and we hope that you will share your work with us. I teach accounting to a blended class - a mix of virtual and face to face students so I am really…
Jan 17, 2011
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Anne Mirtschin replied to Linda Jones's discussion 'Using Twitter in Education'
I also like using twitter as a search engine. Students can search without a twitter user handle. It means they are getting current feelings, news, experiences from people. eg in accounting we searched for stock taking, as this was our current…
Dec 22, 2010

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Hi, I am an IT/commerce teacher. In 2007 I teach IT to grades 3 through to year 12. I love web 2.0 and am trying to used it as much as possible with my classes but am on a steep learning curve. My other interests include podcasting, multimedia and the creation of digital movies.


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Ten things you should do before the Global Education Conference

Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:39pm 0 Comments

With just a week to go before possibly the biggest and most ambitious conference in the world - the Global Education Conference 2010, it is time to get organised. Here are 10 things that you should do!

  1. Choose the sessions that you would like to attend at…
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Ten Reasons to Attend the Global Education Conference 2010

Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:34pm 0 Comments

As I write this post, there are 10 days to the start of this amazing and almost incredulous event. The number ten in English is more commonly written as 10 and some significance could be read into this. The number 10 is made up of two digits, and could be interpreted as :- the 0 represents our globe and the number 1 represents our membership of one global community. As…

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Conference presentations

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 12:00pm 0 Comments

This last month has been a really busy one with three conference presentations given. They are added below:-

1."Connecting an early years classroom" at Slide to Open, VITTA, Melbourne

2. "Beyond classroom walls" at LT2009 in Moolaba, Queensland

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Using elluminate in the classroom

Posted on May 31, 2009 at 6:30pm 12 Comments



Having used elluminate for 12 months for regular global staff meetings, online conferences and online professional development, it has only been this year, that I have used it with students and realised its potential application for being the way to go for 21st century education for middle to senior school students.

Various benefactor organizations, and the… Continue
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Netbooks for Students

Posted on November 22, 2008 at 12:00am 4 Comments

Through a series of grants and funding, my school, Hawkesdale P12 College has purchased a set of 16 acer aspire ones, 1gb ram, 120gb rom for mobile use by staff and students. The increasing use of web2.0 tools and technological access has placed huge demand on our computer lab and pod. At any one time there could be a combination of students from up to 4 classes in the computer lab, when space is available. Staff try to get timetabled into… Continue
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Live blogging in education

Posted on November 17, 2008 at 2:30am 0 Comments

Live blogging using coveritlive



-is user friendly

-enables real time interaction

-allows chat in a moderated environment. Producers have full rights to moderate or block if necessary any comments received.

-allows polls to be set up quickly for quick feedback and variety

-will allow insertion of mp3 files, images and videos

-has a text toolbar

-is free and can be embedded into a blog, wiki or ning

-Stays… Continue
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Amazing connections from classroom20

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 3:00pm 2 Comments



Tonight I was on the computer late at night, trying to get organized for my two days in Melbourne, when a foreign language popped up on my screen, from my skype window. However, the text was in English and my first name was used. I quickly realised that this must be my newly acquired friend from classroom20 who was looking for schools to videoconference with. It was Ekaterina Zhdanova from Russia. How exciting is that!

She had just bought a… Continue
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Around the World NOW

Posted on October 9, 2008 at 3:00am 2 Comments

This is a presentation that I produced for a recent online conference, outlining various ways in which educationalists and their classes can connect to the globe.



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What makes a good quality student blog?

Posted on August 31, 2008 at 1:30pm 1 Comment

The first part of this post is my answer to what are the......



Features of a good quality student blog



..Good structure and layout, with appealing design and theme

..Regularly uploaded and updated posts (should be at least once a week), showing intellectual quality.

..Evidence of proof reading for accuracy, reliability and completeness.

..Appropriate language, bearing in mind digital citizenship status

..Posts of varying lengths with interestingly… Continue
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Best tool for publishing student work....

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:29am 5 Comments

Blogging, blogging, blogging..



So, was my reply to a query on classroom2.0 recently about the best tool for online student publishing. The lively discussion has centred primarily around blogs, wikis and nings but I would like to justify in this post, the use of blogging as the number 1 tool.



A student blog is a far more personal interactive website than any of the others. It may be used for journal entries and for publishing school work across many subject areas. It… Continue

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At 10:32pm on August 15, 2011, SheriSheri said…
Hello Anne! I think your edublog challenge is drawing many more members here. It certainly has brought me back. I always check for events, but haven't connected or blogged here lately. I always send people here to sign-up, and your challenge has encouraged me to add to the site, rather than just check it out. Have a great day.
At 2:15am on August 11, 2011, Tracy WatanabeTracy Watanabe said…
Thanks so much, Anne. Again, I appreciate the tips on how to get started in such a "big place."
Kind regards,
Tracy
At 6:23pm on July 24, 2011, junitajunita said…

Hi Anne How do I get an invite to see Steve in Melbourne when he comes with Classroom 2.0

Cheers

Junita

At 1:20am on June 23, 2011, Abdelouahed OULGOUTAbdelouahed OULGOUT said…
Thank you alot for the welcome.
I am sure my joining Classroom 2.0 is going to be a fruitful choice for me as a teacher of English. I am so interested in integrating ICT into teaching, and I hope I will soon find the way to create an e-classroom where students make use of the new ICT gadgets to maximaize and facilitate their learning. It's my hope, too, to make my teaching so easy, fruitful, and exiciting. Thank you.
At 9:14am on June 20, 2011, Sandra LoganSandra Logan said…
Thanks Anne! I'm looking forward to it!
At 8:22am on June 15, 2011, Carolyn PepeCarolyn Pepe said…

Annie,

Thank you for welcoming me.  I hope to learn more about classroom 2.0 and technology as a whole.  I am very interested in using a variety of technologies in the classroom.  Not just computers and the Internet.  I have great concerns about using the Internet in the classroom.  Internet safety is huge for me.  I want to learn more about using meaningful technology in the classroom to enhance students' learning not just using technology because it is new and novel. 

Thank you, again for the welcome,

Carolyn

At 1:05pm on June 9, 2011, ZoeZoe said…

Hey Anne,

For some reason I never saw your note to me about Voicethread and the term "rookie". Rookie means first time doing something. You made me realize I need to update my profile. Also, I encourage you to look at a recent VT project I managed for a group of teachers,

2011 VT Poetry Collaboration

Would love to see this project become even more international next year. This year we had a Canadian teacher and her 1st and 2nd year students comment but wouldn't it be cool to get our Australian friends involved?

 

 

At 3:03pm on May 9, 2011, Ismail LaalouaIsmail Laaloua said…

thanks a lot

am new here, i would appreciate your help

Ismail

At 11:19pm on April 11, 2011, Pauline WilsonPauline Wilson said…

Thanks for the welcome Anne.  From what I have seen so far here at Classroom 2.0 I am sure I will learn such a lot as well. 

At 7:11am on March 20, 2011, Ken DamerowKen Damerow said…

Thank you Anne for the warm welcome. 

 
 
 

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