How have you been using #MyKeynoteCharacter and the #MyMonsterCharacter in the classroom? Have you or your students got some good ideas about other elements you’d like to make specific projects? This is the place I’d like to gather success stories and hear your requests! Read More
Quick update for the #mykeynotecharacter template that has been such an amazing success! It is the most incredible feeling seeing students and people from around the world use something you have made to be creative themselves! I love it! Read More
Last one before we have induction week at our new school! Keynote file with 100 different objects that can be mashed together, adapted, and stylised into your very own #myKeynotecharacter Read More
Would you like to see you beautiful #mymonstercharacter walking and running about? Download the template files below! Read More
Second offering! Keynote file with 100 different objects that can be mashed together, adapted, and stylised into your very own #mymonstercharacter Read More
Full of ideas and inspiration after the Apple Distinguished Educator Institute, here is my first offering: a Keynote template file that supports you/students create Picasso inspired self portraits! Read More
This might be a slightly different institute reflection than what you expect. I’ve read a few lovely recounts of what happened and what we did. Everyone has done such a great job doing so that I won’t repeat it here but rather talk about how the institute made me feel and how it changed my thinking. Read More
One of the areas we have been working on this term has been “writing assessment”. Last year we had one writing benchmark activity across the primary school and that was a personal recount. This is one of the simplest forms of writing and is easily accessible regardless of age or English level. Read More
One of the blessings of being at an international school can also be one of the greatest sources of frustration… no national curriculum. Without a national curriculum, international schools have the freedom to create a program of learning suited to their context and student body.
I really enjoy creating digital print media: posters, advertisements, programs… I think I like it because it is creative but also because it has such a definitive end – a moment when it is finished/completed. This is something that education never really has… Learning will always continue and the work of supporting our students never really ends. Even when they leave your class and sometimes even when they leave school – education continues. Read More
