Sam's Online Journal » Computing Tasks http://aladdin.edublogs.org This online journal is a requirement of the Computer's major subject for primary education course at UTS. The various responses found here are my comments about specific readings, my experiences in Practicum and any other interesting issues I come across. Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:26:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Resources for Keeping Up to Date http://aladdin.edublogs.org/2005/10/08/resources-for-keeping-up-to-date/ http://aladdin.edublogs.org/2005/10/08/resources-for-keeping-up-to-date/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:11:45 +0000 aladdin http://aladdin.edublogs.org/2005/10/08/resources-for-keeping-up-to-date/ For this task we were suppose to rank each resource according to our own preferences and find at least one more resource. This is what I ended up with:

Rank of 1 (Low Priorty)

  • Professional Learning Community forums
  • Teacher Radio

Rank of 2 (Neutral)

  • Colleagues / peers from UTS
  • Membership of Professional Association
  • Paper or web-based e-learning journals
  • Teachers weblogs
  • Magazines (mass media)

Rank of 3 (High Priority)

  • Teacher colleagues in school
  • Conferences
  • List-servs / email newsletters
  • Teacher Success Story sites
  • Newspapers
  • General teaching sites

These are the two resources I found:

Teacher Portfolios: Individual teachers create these portfolios to keep records of all their knowledge (existing and new. Most begin these whilst at university. I gave this a ranking of 2 and said it should be free.

Computer Software:The example of this resource that I found was Teacher Talk by Kay Toliver; it is meant to inspire teachers to try new approaches in mathematics. I gave this a ranking of 3 and said the school should provide this for the teachers. The advantage I saw of this is that teachers can take this home, or do it in school when they have the time (for example during RFF lessons).

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