Rob Sbaglia's Blog – October 2011 Archive (3)

Who is my teacher? Who isn't my teacher?

This is the question a couple of my students could be asking themselves, having just been awarded third prize in a state-wide immunology competition. This is their entry...

The curious thing about this is that these students found out about the competition not from their "teacher" (in the official sense), but from one of our Virtual… Continue

Added by Rob Sbaglia on October 15, 2011 at 8:52pm — No Comments

Building communities of bloggers

So having outlined the reasons why I decided that blogs were the way to go for teaching and learning, what is the best way to do it?

I remember a talk given by Tom March once, and he said that everyone should have their own domain. I took his advice, and his recommendation of the hosting service Siteground. I registered my own domain names (well,… Continue

Added by Rob Sbaglia on October 5, 2011 at 6:13am — No Comments

Blog for your life

Technology has come a long way since these were games. These were around when I was a primary school kid. The main difference I can see is that we've gone from consumers of content to creators of it.

If you're not familiar with how we work at Castlemaine North, I guess one of the most important things to know is that we are big into kids creating content. To do this, the guts of… Continue

Added by Rob Sbaglia on October 2, 2011 at 4:13am — No Comments