I am a high school English teacher from Sydney, Australia. I am also finishing my PhD at the University of Sydney; it is titled “Innovation and change in the 1999 NSW HSC syllabus: Challenges and problems”.
This blog is intended as a space for my personal reflection on a range of issues effecting both my teaching and research. It is also a place where I can share ideas and resources with friends and colleagues.
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Posted by Imelda Judge on August 16, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Just sticky beaking!! Go the digi-stories! Looking into it myself! Will need to talk more on the matter. This is obviously not attached to the digitales programme???
Posted by kellimcgraw on August 17, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Not attached to any particular programme, no. The students will use MovieMaker to make a digital story, and if we have time at the end of the term I want to see if we can use Voicethread as well, perhaps for digital poetry.
There are some great resources here:
http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling
Posted by turgayevren on February 19, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Hi, I am an English teacher from Turkey. It is nice to meet such enthusiastic teachers blogging like you. I have also created from a blog at: http://www.turgayevren.wordpress.com
On my blog, my priority is to provide some audio visual materials to the benefit of my students. I would be happy to exchange ideas with you about teaching English.
Posted by mgiddins on April 19, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Hi Kelli, very excited to be working with you on the New Technologies New Stories project. I am committing some time to creating blogs and wikis myself over the coming term to use with my faculty, and honestly, to start putting my money where my mouth is, so to speak. My blog is: http://mgiddins.wordpress.com and I have started it as a place to document the ICT experiments in our classrooms, the resources I find, the new stuff I learn, etc. Looking forward to working with you next term.
Cheers,
Mel.
Posted by Lyntiernan on May 10, 2009 at 11:27 am
Hi Kelly, I wanted to ask you about how to add the videos to the blog as you do. I find the videos you select really useful!
Posted by Brendt Evenden on September 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Hi Kelli
Stumbled across your blog from Darcy Moore’s. i too am an English teacher in NSW and i am looking for new materials/ideas/concepts/etc. with the DER wave waiting to crash down.
You’re lucky to have a poet in residence – sounds like you’re doing some great poetry stuff. Keep up the great work and look forward to hearing more about it.
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