Alfie Kohn - Encouraging Collaboration rather than Competition  Education Next is a free online conference that brought together a range of...

A not so recent discovery that has been a fantastic find is the app ' Overdrive ' which is a eBook reader for the NZ and worldwide l...

Key Competencies for the Future was release mid 2014 and explores the history, idealogy and understandings of New Zealand's Key Competen...

Today I had my CRT (Classroom Release Time) in New Zealand we get 2 of these days per term.  It depends school to school how these days are...

This is Part 2 of the previous blog post detailing how I create digital modelling books. My class setup is an apple TV and TV.  Whe...

I have been trialling digital modelling books for mathematics with my students and they seem to be working really well for both my students...

PML (Planning My Learning) has changed a little bit - we have made changes to the structure of the board and moved it off the whiteboard.  I...

Week 2 of our negotiated learning topic started well, but then slowed in momentum during the week.  From our Immersion week (which I shared ...

PML is short for Plan My Learning, which is a phrase we use in Room 12 to explain how learners organise their daily learning tasks - the ter...

Our big theme this term is 'Dream It, Think It, Do It!' so KW and I designed a week of immersion which allowed our students to be in...

At the BYOD day in the holidays I had the pleasure of presenting with my colleague Jessicca Vidal on BYOD in the Classroom. During the se...

Thursday 1st May sees the second BYOD conference happening in Auckland; BYOD 2104 - Making it Mobile .  The conference is run by Learning Ne...

This week has been PINs week - this is where the students have a chance to sign up for a range of different activities with different teache...

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to head away with my team of talented teachers on a road trip to explore 3 schools in Pahoia and Papamoa...

Byod presentation #byod2013 from heymilly

Click on this link to download  the 'How To Sheet' for making a Pong Game in  Scratch ! This is a easy and great game to sta...

Each term our school undergoes PIN's workshops each term.  The idea of these are that students can take part in something that relates t...