I have decided this week full time teaching and post grad papers don't mix very easily and I made the decision this week to pull out of the post-grad paper. I was actually enjoying the paper but I just did not have a single spare minute to breath and I could see it was only going to get worse. I'm not one for giving things only half effort and so juggling my classes and the paper was basically going to destroy me.
It does mean that I now can focus on literacy and Science which is the department goal but also an area that I want to give some time to with my digital Yr 9 Science classes.
So I have been snooping around the various blogs that I try to visit on a regular basis and I came to this link on
power-point presentations - it definitely had some very good points!
Now that most teachers have a projector in their classroom our students are probably exposed to a few every day so the tips given in the PowerPoint Reform could be very useful to share with our teachers.
I also had a quick read of Sharon's blog (
Circle of Wise) and it reminded me to use animoto for some variation. I have blogged about animoto before so no need to go into detail here but I had not considered getting my students to use it so thanks Sharon for the tip! As our tool boxes expand we forget things and it is always good to get little remind now and then!
