"The long Game"- An article by Paul Dix about a sustained approach to improve the behaviour of students who are difficult to engage in learning. This article discusses the organisation of teaching spaces to create positive behaviour patterns in the classroom.
Professional Reading: using visual tools to focus dialogue
"I Hear What you Say" gives striking insight into the way conversations - particularly those we term "difficult conversations" are actually two monologues happening at the same time. The article gives ideas on how to make the most of conversations with students and colleagues.
It comes from a site called http://www.modellearning.com/ which has a number of resources based on visual graphic tools.
Professional Reading: blog posts about National Standards, John Hattie and Anne Tolley
These blogs are worth a read as a critique of what is going on in education at the moment and serve as a contrast to what is in the mainstream media.
Leading and learning
Networkonnet
e-learning ideas: the PODs are coming
A slideshow about the use of PODs (personally owned devices) as learning tools.
The POD's are Coming
e-learning ideas: tagxedo (thanks to PC for this idea)
View more presentations from David Truss.
Did you like wordle? If so, you'll love tagxedo (tag cloud with styles).
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. A video of how to use tagxedo:
