Melanie‘s post expresses how she feels about the looming practical experience and I could relate so much I responded to her post with this…   Hi Melanie, I feel like that too and it doesn’t seen to get any better with how many pracs you do. I am unreasonably scared, I think I just want… Continue reading We are all in this together!

Issues of safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT learning and teaching and strategies. Safe Skills tool kit can help student parents and teachers. Because technology is progressing so fast and everyone has different levels of understanding and its a relatively new concept it is really important to be continuously monitoring and informing students to be… Continue reading Cyber safety and Prac

What do I know about the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT?   My personal experience about this I guess starts with my profession as a Kindy teacher for the last ten years. I know my service policies about confidentiality standards  and keeping children safe online with regards to communicating with parents and documentation.… Continue reading Digital citizenship

Preparing for Pr ac is not easy. I dont think i am the only one after looking at the forums for the course. Makes me feel better knowing i’m not the only one. Tried to contact my site supervisor today and my in-place page is down and not working so now i’m waiting for the… Continue reading Preparing for Prac What to do list

I can totally relate to Rebecca davis and her frustration with her blue card I am in a similar situation. https://beccdavis.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/blue-card-still-in-progress/ I needed to renew my card but because it expired before prac starts USQ could not start looking until it was processed. WHAT!!! When i renewed my form i wrote i was born in… Continue reading Practical Experience

We are learning about A Technology Integration Planning (TIP) Model for Teachers This link was  interesting to me  regarding his model. I have been learning about problems and associated potential ICT-based solutions through my ICT course and have come across  a table that is from Roblyer (2006, p. 45) which provides a list of examples of learning problems… Continue reading Assignment 2 and TIP

Assignment time means at my house their is stuff everywhere… Scraps of paper littered all over the floor with unintelligible scribble all over it in different directions.(Yep in my study haze I cant even write straight). This is a peek into my lingering 1997 education study traits where typing class was in and computers was out and writing your essays… Continue reading A place to keep my empirical research

Very interesting… I am a big believer that developing my PCK has been definitely from experience. Many years ago I went to college and was involved in the theory of Beauty Therapy and applied science from 830-4 five days a week for a year. Once it was complete i tried to gain work in my profession– AND failed… Continue reading Developing your PCK

Conflict of interest?- The reason your children cannot attend the same school you are placed for prac is to make it fair. Isn’t it more important to be organised, have access to more time in the day and already have an honest open relationship with your mentor because you know them in the community than….. Go to a school… Continue reading The long journey of Prac placement- A working studying mums opinion

Completed a simple quiz today to test my pedagogical knowledge, I was pleased to discover that I received ten out of ten! Another quiz I completed was to text my knowledge of constructing knowledge and transforming knowledge- what a sigh of relief to discover I also received ten out of ten. I guess something is… Continue reading QUIZ- A taste of Pedagogical Content Knowledge and all things PRAC