Negotiating the Blogosphere
I’m currently running a workshop about the Beginner’s Guide to Negotiating the Blogosphere at the University of Tasmania New Literacies, Digital Multimedia and Classroom Teaching Conference. You can find the Slideshare below. All of the screenshots of the blogs are hyperlinks. Negotiating the Blogosphere View more presentations from Martin Waller
Skyping with The Wren’s Nest
Nearly two years ago I wrote a blog post about a project I planned and taught which promoted a critical view of literacy through storytelling based on the Brer Rabbit stories. I subsequently adapted to project to embed work with The Wren’s Nest Museum in Atlanta, the birthplace museum of Joel Chandler Harris who collected the stories. [...]
Calling all bloggers
On September 3rd I will be running a workshop about blogging in education at the New Literacies, Digital Media and Classroom Teaching Conference in Tasmania. At the start of the session I would like to showcase a range of blogs to show the attendees the different affordances and features of blogging systems. If you can think [...]
#ngconf – A perfect tonic in these troubled times…
I have briefly returned from digital leave to write about the fantastic Northern Grid for Learning Conference (#ngconf) which took place yesterday in Newcastle. I spoke at the conference last year but was even more excited to attend this year as a large proportion of the speakers were folk from Twitter who I have spoken [...]
How do you inspire writers?
I’ve been asked to run a workshop about how to inspire writers and help raise writing attainment across the primary-phase as part of a PD day at my school in a couple of weeks. I obviously have my own ideas, views and ways of doing so but I’m really interested to hear what others think. Particularly in [...]
Visit The Land of Me… seriously
The Land of Me - Trailer from Made in Me on Vimeo.
A world of creativity & learning for ages 2 and up (that includes you)… I recently discovered The Land of Me by the fantastic company Made in Me. It is quite simply one of the most charming pieces of educational software I have ever come across. The software is based around the idea of promoting [...]
HTC – Do Anything?
I really like these HTC adverts as I think they demonstrate how smartphones have become completely integrated into people’s lives. If you worry about your smartphone becoming too integrated in your life then check out: 5 tips to free you from the shackles of your smartphone
Time for another Changing Horizon…
I have spent today completely re-designing this website. When I say re-designing I actually mean finding a decent template and then modifying it. It is something I have been meaning to do for a long time as I had become unhappy with the dark theme that I had installed previously. Most of the blogs that [...]
Friend/Inbox/Tweet Me – Perceived challenges and implications of Social Media
“Friend me on Facebook and I’ll totally confirm” (Dialogue from ‘Sorority Row’ – Hendler, 2009: [00:27:50]) The above dialogue demonstrates how online practices with social networks have become embedded in popular culture and media and how the boundaries of offline and online ties have become blurred (Ellison et al, 2007). As the result of their [...]
Why ‘Growing Greener Futures’ is important
I recently took up a new role in my school as creative learning coordinator, which includes coordinating our School of Creativity programme with Creative Partnerships. Over the past three years we have been engaged in work based on outdoor learning, living with the land and digital technologies. This has included redeveloping areas of our school [...]