Thanks to a tweet from Andrew Williamson and Mel Cashen, who are currently working as coaches for the Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century course being run by DEECD, I was posed a series of reflective questions about how my thoughts around having a Personal Learning Network [PLN].

This lead to me creating and uploading my first YouTube video that I filmed using my iPad and edited with iMovie and Keynote.

School holidays has been a great time to clean out and catch up on all of the blogs I have in my Google Reader.I stumbled across this TED Talk by Drew Dudley the other day through a post on Lifehack: Top 20 TED Talks that can improve your life.

It's now about five weeks into the start of the 2011 new school year and I feel I am beginning to find my feet as a specialist ICT teacher.  Being in a brand new school has meant that we have experienced some delays with our ICT equipment getting deployed. This has meant that I have had to be quite resourceful and innovative with my lessons.

I have managed to secure the use of a portable LCD TV that I have been able to connect my laptop to and share images and presentations with my students. I had always planned to start of the year with cybersafety activities, but had wanted it to be far more hands on. That said, I am quite pleased with my achievements in teaching ICT without any ICT.

Below is a summary of the activities I have completed to date with each year level.

As part of the week-long induction process for my new school (post about this to come soon) we were shown the following video from Ben Zander; the conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.