Where I work we use SharePoint 2007 and I remember when I first started using SharePoint I was told anything you can do on the web you can do in SharePoint. Well today I found that this was not quiet true. All I wanted to do was display a picture library as a Slideshow. Should […]
Mrs A's Blog
My Rambling Thoughts on Teaching and Learning
"What NO INTERNET?"
Last week I attended the BEA (Business Educators Australasia) Conference, the conference was really good. It’s always interesting to see conferences for various subject areas and the information you can gather. In a previous life I was a business teacher and it’s nice to network with teachers who have brilliant ideas in the teaching of […]
What Exactly is the Purpose of Education?
This week I have spent my time in primary school planning meetings. Each of these has started the same way with the teachers being given a copy of the draft National Australian Curriculum. Each of these meetings has then gone in a very different direction depending on the combination of teachers. One thing that did […]
Time to Pop the Bubble Wrap
I was reading a blog post tonight about what is the best age to teach Social Networking. Royan makes many good points. The main one I agree with is Everywhere I turn I see a lot of time and money being consumed warning parents, children, and teachers about the dangers on the Internet. It’s getting […]
Clean Out the Tube Quietly
I found this site accidently this week while searching for something else but the idea is fantastic. Quietube allows you to add a button to your toolbar so that when you find a YouTube or other video online you can clean out the advertising and present a clean copy of the video without seeing inappropriate […]