School Experience
8:58 pm on the 11th of January, 2004For two weeks starting tomorrow morning I’m following a programme of school experince at my old grammar school in Dunbar, it’s a bit scary but definitely something I’m looking foward to.
In terms of workload it shouldn’t be very taxing at all, the only preperation I’ve had to do is get a whole load of new shirts and a few ties - the only ones I had before where to fit the uniform and I’m going to be recognised by a fair few of the pupils as it is. It’s all observation with the chance to do some small group teaching and it should be a lot of fun.
I’m going to set up a separate (hidden) weblog to jot down any thoughts - some may migrate here - because I’m sure blogging has a huge potential in education, be it for planning lessons or orgainising drafts of work or collating people’s thoughts during group work.
January 12th, 2004 at 8:31 am on the 12th of January, 2004
IT has a part to play. I’m not sure about bloogging - i think it would need to be private. Would it really be a good thing if a class on-line discussion about, i dunno role models accidentally became the google number one website for some sort of Tanya Robinson.
Don’t some schools in america have effectively private intranets, which would maybe permit this to happen without the external effect?
January 12th, 2004 at 8:31 am on the 12th of January, 2004
Oh, and, best of luck.
January 12th, 2004 at 5:52 pm on the 12th of January, 2004
Most blogs are private, it’s only when they start linking to other sites that they get incoming traffic other than those who are told about personally and probably the best way for it to work would be on a private intranet anyway, most offices/schools/libraries etc have one, you probably do but just don’t realise.
Depending on the situation it would requitre some sort of supervision but then you would have that anyway in the form of a teacher offering advice and guidance.
And it went ok thank you
January 13th, 2004 at 8:42 am on the 13th of January, 2004
I know our office has a private intranet - I access it daily. But we have an IT dept with 20-30 staff, probably more. A school doesn’t have these resources, so didn’t expect it have one.
January 16th, 2004 at 9:03 am on the 16th of January, 2004
As long as your thoughts don’t involve these people
The director was on Question Time last night, but they never said who they were or what they did. Ugh. She was great at attacking, for a (pre-planned) sentence or two, then would run out of steam. And bad at actually saying what she would do. A ‘hip and trendy’ site for 40 somethings as far as I can see. How very New Labour. Which they hate. How horrid for them.
January 16th, 2004 at 1:22 pm on the 16th of January, 2004
I saw that too, and couldn’t stand her. She was the worst speaker last night of a very poor bunch I thought apart from that LibDen lady and she wasn’t terribly inspiring either.
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