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Anne Mirtschin commented on Anne Mirtschin's blog post 'What AM I doing here again!'

Hi Julie, it is so reassuring that you also experience what we do and that is why I love working with you and Vicki and the others. It really is the same for all of us. One of my boys took his work home to get it completed at home, but discovered ha…

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Julie Lindsay commented on Anne Mirtschin's blog post 'What AM I doing here again!'

Anne, I was just thinking very similar ideas to you when I discovered your post in this Ning! Thank you, thank you! Yes, not all of my students received an outsourced clip.....but then some of them did not request it until last week, or at all! Not…

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Hawkesdale P12 College is a small rural prep to year 12 school, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town of Hawkesdale has 150 residents and 270 students attend our school.

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Hawkesdale P12 College is a small rural prep to year 12 school, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town of Hawkesdale has 150 residents and 270 students attend our school.

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Hawkesdale P12 College

Hawkesdale P12 College is a small rural prep to year 12 school, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town of Hawkesdale has 150 residents and 270 students attend our school.

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Julie Lindsay commented on Anne Mirtschin's blog post 'Are you bewildered with starting a flatclassroom project!'

Anne, thank you! I know this will help many teachers get their head around out projects. I hope this encourages new teachers to come on board and participate.

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Are you bewildered with starting a flatclassroom project!

My year 12 class had been studying virtual teams as part of their theory work, when on twitter I noticed that students were required to be part of the sounding board process for the Flat Horizons Project. What better way to learn the theory than to…

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Hi, I am a teacher in a small rural prep to year 12 school in Australia. I teach years 2 to 12 information technology and am passionate about the use of web2.0 tools. This year I am have also got teacher professional leave together with Jess McCulloch to lay the eplanks in a virtual school (ie flat classrooms)

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What AM I doing here again!

As the flat classroom projects enter the final weeks, levels of anxiety start to run rather high amongst the student body – anger, frustration, confusion, indecision, lack of understanding, complacency are many of the emotions and feelings that run high at this stage.
So, as a teacher I need to coax, cajole, coach, encourage, teach all over again, explain, facilitate, survive etc to keep the project’s momentum going.
Some students
•get angry when a wiki war means that they have lost their hard e… Continue

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Are you bewildered with starting a flatclassroom project?

My year 12 class had been studying virtual teams as part of their theory work, when I noticed on twitter that students were required to be part of the sounding board process for the Flat Horizons Project. What better way to learn the theory than to practise it! That was my introduction to the Flat Classroom Projects and both the students and I were hooked!
Since that time, my classes have been involved in three flat classroom projects, the dig… Continue

Posted on October 15, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Using elluminate in the 21st century classroom

Over the past 18 months I have used elluminate to attend professional development sessions in the USA. I live in a small town in country Victoria, Australia where cost and distance prevent me from attending many professional development ac… Continue

Posted on September 7, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Walking a Wiki - Marathon style

It can be quite overwhelming working with wikis, especially if it is the first time. Some of my students are not even familiar with wikipedia, so the following task is completed in the very early stages of this project to ensure that they know what the biggest wiki of all invovles. It also gives us an insight into wikepedia type editing.

Walking a Wiki - Marathon Style

1. Goto wikipedia and describe what you see on the startup page. Why has this be… Continue

Posted on May 3, 2009 at 12:28pm — 1 Comment

Looking forward to a new project

Approximately 12 months ago, I read a tweet on twitter, requesting people to become involved as a sounding board for the flat horizons project. As it sounded
interesting and as my year 12 students were studying virtual teams as part of their course I enrolled in the project. Thus began some wonderful learning experiences. Five of my year 9/10 girls enrolled in the flatclassroom project at the end of 2008. Three girls and I were then fortunate enough to attend… Continue

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At 3:04pm on August 2, 2009, Mark Powell said…: Thanks, Anne. Montessori is a method of teaching based on the work of Dr Maria Montessori, an Italian physician who lived from 1870 to 1952. It's goal is encouraging independence in children rather than the transfer of curriculum, which happens more as a by-product. Hands-on learning, mixed-age classes and child-sized furniture were among Montessori's innovations. A good website for more info is www.jola-montessori.com/mc/content/what_ld.php

I teach in California, but I am originally from Brisbane. I'm really interested in connecting my classes with classrooms in Australia especially, but have had lots of difficulty finding partner classrooms in the past. I hope this will work better.

At 8:03am on June 1, 2009, Flick said…: hello.
how are you.
missing you much.
cant wait till you get back =]
flic

At 10:00pm on March 11, 2009, Julie Pavletich said…: Hi Anne. thanks for the tip. I stumbeledon that ning yesterday and watched the video. i'll love the notion of provoking the students into discussion. A couple sounded a bit defensive and misunderstood in terms of how they learn in this environment. It is such an insight into their world read their comments. Keep up your great work - it's so important.

At 11:25am on March 5, 2009, Abdulmajeed said…: Hi my lovely teacher, thank you so much for your lovely message. I am doing well in my studies and all my friends are fine. Oh, I am very sad to hear this bad news. I hope you and your student are well. I have test on Sunday and Monday. What about my friends Tara and Carly? Please give my best regards to them. Can you help me to improve my English?
Best wishes for you. I am waiting to hear from you soon.

sorry about my English

Your son
AbdulMajeed Al-hashmi

At 8:59pm on March 4, 2009, Abdulmajeed said…: Hi

How are you?

What the news of school?

i mis you

see you

At 4:20am on January 21, 2009, Flick said…: hello how are you going?

um how can i communicate with you

At 1:40am on December 16, 2008, Kim Cofino said…: Hi Anne,

It was such a pleasure for our students to Skype with your wonderful girls! Not only did they have all of their thoughtful questions answered, but they got a fabulous introduction to Australia and Australian culture!

Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day (and lunch!) to chat with us!

Kim

At 7:54am on December 12, 2008, Salim_Al-Busaidi said…: Thanks Anne,
Flat Classroom Project is a wonderful experience for us as teachers and for our students.
Yes, we will attend the conference in Qatar. Hope to meet you there.

Salim

At 7:58pm on October 25, 2008, Ernie Easter said…: It was Vicki Davis who nominated me. I was very honored by it.

At 3:09am on October 25, 2008, Ernie Easter said…: Hi Anne - I had signed on as the Web 2.0 expert advisor. We need to get all the students rounded up and registered on the Web 2.0 Ning page - much like herding cats I believe.