Coping with Term 4

Unfortunately, our relatively quick holiday of just under 2 weeks to London, Hungary and Romania turned into an absence of a month. My husband was bitten by a dog in Hungary and required urgent surgery in Budapest. This required a hospital stay of 5 days so we missed our flights home and then could not get flights until the first day of the school term. So my mind is scrambled trying to cope with VCE exam revision etc.

The grade 6 students have had fun “losing” all sorts of work that they have done by not saving correctly. So some classes have been used frantically trying to see whether they are in My Documents or other unusual places. On the whole, though the student’s podcasts are coming along really well and I am so pleased with them. The stronger students have actually put their images up as well. The hosting of these podcasts and enhanced podcasts is now being considered and various opinions are being sought via www.classroom20.com and other mailing lists that I subscribe to.

Yesterday I also joined ozteachers at http://lists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/oz-teachers as that was highly recommended by Anne Baird when I rang her for some advice.