Over the past 18 months I have been lucky enough to build a wonderful personal learning network, mostly through Twitter and blogging.  I couldn’t begin to list the ways it has helped me to further my learning and my teaching. This year, participating in the PLP Connect U project, I have continued to build a [...]

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§361 · November 29, 2011 · Uncategorized · (8 comments) · Tags: , , , , ,


Quite often in our class the kids will ask me questions.  Especially questions I have no idea of the answer.  And I think that is great. But what used to happen is I would say the standard response of, “Mmmm.  I am not sure.  Interesting.  Maybe we could investigate this.”  And of course never find [...]

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§346 · October 29, 2011 · Uncategorized · (4 comments) · Tags: , , , ,


I have recently read Nigel Holloway’s great post on the, Art and Power of Reflection. I am a very reflective person by nature and I guess you would say I am a bit of a self learner too. I often reflect on how I have contributed to, or behaved, in a particular situation. For example [...]

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