The official learning of the day is nearly over and soon will be downtime before the “networking” barbeque. I was just tweeting to another attendee about the fact that my brain hurts – I need time to take this all on board and i think I’m going to swim around underwater in the lagoon for a while and hope the voices in my head stop. You could choose to be downhearted about what we haven’t yet managed to achieve – I’m choosing to get excited about what is yet to come. Now for the pool 🙂

I completely agree with Peter…. my head is really hurting from trying to listen and take in everything that is being said. I would LOVE 5 mins to process each session but its go go go…. fantastic information but WOW the possibilities are out of this world. I wish everyone at Joeys could be here to witness some of the greatness that is out there.

I’m in a session with a guy from Griffith University – he’s basically throwing great ICT ideas at us and it is like being hit with a tsunami of great information. As teachers we will never be able to take on board all this stuff – I guess we just need to find what works well for us and the students and be good at it. Jeez my brain hurts!!

Had a wonderful session working with a junior teacher from Korumburra School in S.E. Victoria. I had to criticize her unit of work – and there was nothing to criticize. It was ineresting that where I did criticize was in the very area that I feel I fall down most as a teacher – namely the language, design and clarity of the assessment rubric. I’d love to know if other people struggle with producing an assessment rubric that works for you and your students.

Cass and I just had a play with the most astonishing piece of technology – an interactive table that was straight of the USS Enterprise. I’ll post the details as soon as I get them but if one piece of equipment was going to convert me to fully fledged techno-nerd then that would be it.

Watching a presentation from a QLD primary teacher on usin ICT creatively. We have so much to learn from the primary system, and I’m really starting to grasp why so many students don’t handle the transition as well as they could.

Voice thread

Not sure if the embed I just did is going to work. If it does check it out as it looks like a great classroom tool. Otherwise visit https://voicethread.com/?#q

I realy don’t want these entries to come across as a “look how rubbish we are” whinge because we aren’t. We’re a great school. I think we would be greatly served if we could – as a whole staff – actually blue sky think about where we want to be and how we do it. We are all su passionate but somehow the passion gets sapped from us by life.

It’s possible to be profoundly inspired and massively frustrated at the same time. It’s a weird feeling.

Time time and more TIME. I am hearing that there is so much we COULD be doing but for the time. Anyone heard about 20% time? Look it up. Very intereting concept. Where is Joeys in all of this? I am sorry to say that ‘fairly far behind’ doesn’t cover it. We need more than words to make this happen.