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Posted by Dave Fagg on November 16, 2007
As a short assessment of our bushranger unit, I got my students to write (and not so short) summaries of different Australian bushrangers. Some of them you may have heard of…others are less well known.
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Posted by Dave Fagg on August 26, 2007
Tomorrow the class is going on a trip to Victoria Hill - hopefully more than last time will turn up! Victoria Hill is an old mining site - it hosts what was once the deepest shaft mine in the world as well as George Lansell’s first mine…he went on to make a mint out of gold.
The task sheet that I usually give them is too long for the hour that we’ll have. So here it is. If you want to listen to the podcast, go here.
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Posted by Dave Fagg on August 19, 2007
G’day all. I’m beginning a unit on Timor Leste (East Timor) with my Year 8s this week, and planning to do a stations strategy again, including a podcast introducing things. I was lucky enough to be able to interview Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, so that forms part of the podcast as well.
Last week we had Major Daniel from the ADF come and present about his time in Timor, which was fantastic…the boys were mainly concerned with whether he had killed anyone, thrown a grenade into a house etc (no and no if you’re interested).
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Posted by Dave Fagg on July 21, 2007
Last week I presented at a PD for history teachers on how to integrate technology into history learning. Great diversity of teachers from primary, secondary as well as state, Catholic and private. They recorded their own podcast - listen here!
A big issue for the secondary teachers was access to technology - computer labs always booked etc. I think that computer labs will be less and less needed, except for ICT-specific subjects. It’s very rare that whole classes need to be on computers simultaneously, except for word processing, which is a pretty lame way to integrate ICT. I think that the way forward lies in having smaller amounts of accessible technology ie. pods of computers in or between classrooms, and in having a variety of activities, some of which require ICT.
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Posted by Dave Fagg on April 26, 2007
I’ve been looking on the stats page for this blog, and the Medieval Crime & Punishment podcast has passed 1,000 hits over the past 2 months since it was posted. In other words, it makes up a tenth of all the traffic on this site. Either it’s a fantastic post, or somehow Google picks it up on searches for medieval stuff.
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