My Nominations for The 2013 Edublog Awards

This is my fourth time nominating educators for the The Edublog Awards.  My nominations in 2013 are:

Best individual blog:  Another dot in the blogosphere? http://ashleytan.wordpress.com/
Best individual tweeter: @engrg1
Best ed tech / resource sharing blog: Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Best twitter hashtag: #edsg
Best teacher blog: Teacher Reboot Camp http://shellyterrell.com/
Best school administrator blog: A Principal’s Reflections http://esheninger.blogspot.com/
Best free web tool: Edmodo
Best educational use of visual: Open Source Physics Simulations by lookang http://weelookang.blogspot.com/
Best educational webinar series: The Global Education Conference http://www.globaleducationconference.com/
Best educational use of a social network: The Educator’s PLN http://edupln.ning.com/
Best use of a PLN: The Educator’s PLN http://edupln.ning.com/
Lifetime achievement: On an e-journey with generation Y http://murcha.wordpress.com/

Flipping Mother Tongue oracy lessons with digital storytelling and social learning

This is my first attempt to share some of my ideas to flip teaching and learning. I picked oracy lesson because I have been using tools like VoiceThread for oracy teaching and assessment for a few years. I still believe there are a lot of room for improvement. I will continue to explore further and sharpen my flipping practices. I hope I can come up with a proposal for iCTLT 2014 based on this sharing 🙂

My Nominations for The 2012 Edublog Awards

This is my third time nominating educators for the The Edublog Awards.  My nominations in 2012 are:

Best individual blog:  dangerously irrelevant http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
Best individual tweeter: @ashley
Best resource sharing blog: Edudemic http://edudemic.com
Best twitter hashtag: #edsg
Best teacher blog: On an e-journey with generation Y http://murcha.wordpress.com/
Best school administrator blog: A Principal’s Reflections http://esheninger.blogspot.com/
Best free web tool: Edmodo
Best educational use of visual: Open Source Physics Simulations by lookang http://weelookang.blogspot.com/
Best educational webinar series: K12 Online Conference http://k12onlineconference.org/
Best educational use of a social network: The Educator’s PLN http://edupln.ning.com/
Best use of a PLN: The Educator’s PLN http://edupln.ning.com/
Lifetime achievement: Another dot in the blogosphere? http://ashleytan.wordpress.com/

I am a Power Searcher!

I attended the Power Searching with Google course and is proud to earn a certificate! It was a simple online workshop about search techniques. I learnt some nifty stuff about searches, for example,  searching images using colour filters. I didn’t know about it before the course. Haha!

I hope Google will come up with more courses related to its applications. The course also features Google Hangout. Although I didn’t participate, I think it’s a great start for Google to deliver online lessons to masses.

感谢左手 2012

I’m so impressed and amused by my Primary 6 boys’ video adaptation of a textbook passage. I don’t think I can produce it myself 🙂

Ironically, a few parents told me NOT to assign online work to their children. Perhaps I should show them this video next time. Their kids are really doing amazing stuff 😉

Till 2016, we can be reconnected again.

What would you do if you noticed some of your graduating students spending too much time on Facebook and neglecting their final year examinations? These students shouldn’t be on Facebook too as they are below 13 years old.

How would you feel when a 9 year old boy sent the above Facebook message to people in his network announcing he will be deactivating his account because it’s illegal for him to be on Facebook? He is sad to lost all the connections till 2016.

My To-Do list for iCTLT 2012!

2 years ago I missed iCTLT because I was away for army reservist. I’m glad I am able to attend iCTLT 2012! 😀

I still remember I used Twitter to follow the conference then. This time round Twitter is unleashed and the hash tag #ictlt2012 has been enjoying success in usage.

My To-Do list:

1. Must attend @Sham Sensei‘s awesome ‘Lead Teach Tweet’.

2. Support my colleague’s presentation on using Digital Mind Mapping with Popplet.

3. Meet up with the great people behind Edmodo and Core Education.

4. Many concurrent sessions related to using technology to teach languages.

5. Meet up with like-minded educators and wonderful tweeps in my Twitter PLN.

See you in iCTLT 2012! 😉