Comments for MrWarner.com http://www.mrwarner.com Teaching, technology and anything else on my mind... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on A little help from Twitter by Nigel Ford http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/a-little-help-from-twitter/#comment-204 Nigel Ford Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:53:57 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=190#comment-204 I believe the people who have a stake in it (British Epilepsy Society or some-such) have no objection to Brainstorm as a term. I believe the people who have a stake in it (British Epilepsy Society or some-such) have no objection to Brainstorm as a term.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week Two by Mark Warner http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-two/#comment-179 Mark Warner Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:40:11 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=196#comment-179 Hi Andrew. It's great to hear that you've enjoyed reading about our work... so much so that you want to try it in your own classroom! I'm sure that your children will have as much success with it as we have here in the UK. Good luck - and let us know how it goes. We haven't tried blogging much as a class, but that's another project that I definitely want to spend more time on in the future. Hi Andrew. It’s great to hear that you’ve enjoyed reading about our work… so much so that you want to try it in your own classroom! I’m sure that your children will have as much success with it as we have here in the UK. Good luck - and let us know how it goes. We haven’t tried blogging much as a class, but that’s another project that I definitely want to spend more time on in the future.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week Two by Mark Warner http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-two/#comment-178 Mark Warner Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:37:42 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=196#comment-178 Thanks for the suggestion. As I mentioned on Twitter, the children have had experience with Wikispaces, so I want to build on that initially. However, Tiddywiki certainly looks like a great alternative, and is possibly something that we can progress to afterwards. Thanks for the suggestion. As I mentioned on Twitter, the children have had experience with Wikispaces, so I want to build on that initially. However, Tiddywiki certainly looks like a great alternative, and is possibly something that we can progress to afterwards.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week Two by Mark Warner http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-two/#comment-177 Mark Warner Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:36:40 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=196#comment-177 I'm tempted to get the other versions of the game to see how we might be able to use those in the classroom. However, planning this unit (and playing through the game the first time) took such a long time, I might wait a while. Good to hear that you're enjoying reading about our work. Thanks for commenting. I’m tempted to get the other versions of the game to see how we might be able to use those in the classroom. However, planning this unit (and playing through the game the first time) took such a long time, I might wait a while. Good to hear that you’re enjoying reading about our work. Thanks for commenting.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week Two by Andrew http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-two/#comment-176 Andrew Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:05:50 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=196#comment-176 Fantastic lessons/unit of work mate! I have just read through both your posts and instantly went on ebay and bid on a copy of Myst. I too am a primary teacher and I can't wait to see the look on my students faces (especially my boys) when I pull out a 'game' for literacy! Thanks for the tip. A number of our classes will be using blogging as a eportfolio and other stuff next year we would love to collaborate/share ideas with some of your students in 2009. Fantastic lessons/unit of work mate! I have just read through both your posts and instantly went on ebay and bid on a copy of Myst. I too am a primary teacher and I can’t wait to see the look on my students faces (especially my boys) when I pull out a ‘game’ for literacy! Thanks for the tip. A number of our classes will be using blogging as a eportfolio and other stuff next year we would love to collaborate/share ideas with some of your students in 2009.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week Two by Tom http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-two/#comment-174 Tom Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:43:35 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=196#comment-174 Great 2nd week post Mark - I always thought that http://www.tiddlywiki.com would be great tool to create those "choose your own adventure" stories. Great 2nd week post Mark - I always thought that http://www.tiddlywiki.com would be great tool to create those “choose your own adventure” stories.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week Two by Rodd Lucier http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-two/#comment-168 Rodd Lucier Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:22:09 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=196#comment-168 I loved working through the puzzles and stories in the Myst II, III, and IV and am excited to hear how you're using this game to provide your students with a rich immersive experience. Using the worlds of the D'Ni to harness the critical and creative thinking of students is a terrific idea. I am anxious to see the products that your students produce in response to this experience... I loved working through the puzzles and stories in the Myst II, III, and IV and am excited to hear how you’re using this game to provide your students with a rich immersive experience. Using the worlds of the D’Ni to harness the critical and creative thinking of students is a terrific idea. I am anxious to see the products that your students produce in response to this experience…

]]> Comment on A little help from Twitter by daibarnes http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/a-little-help-from-twitter/#comment-159 daibarnes Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:01:43 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=190#comment-159 Twitter is really excellent as a tool that connects you to ppl with common interests. However, your post highlights a power that surpasses the mighty Google Search. I said yesterday to a colleague making an informal inquiry that I would tweet it, not google it. @digitalmaverick has also identified the potential of twitter to provide quality, relevant search responses faster than google because you lose so much of the trawling through many irrelevant sites. Also, social bookmarking has this power if you identify users in the same line of work you can search your network (users of that site whose bookmarks you subscribe to) and see what they have saved under keywords (tags). Even without that network set up you can generally judge the quality (rule of thumb) by the number of times a URL has been saved by other people. Twitter is really excellent as a tool that connects you to ppl with common interests. However, your post highlights a power that surpasses the mighty Google Search. I said yesterday to a colleague making an informal inquiry that I would tweet it, not google it. @digitalmaverick has also identified the potential of twitter to provide quality, relevant search responses faster than google because you lose so much of the trawling through many irrelevant sites.

Also, social bookmarking has this power if you identify users in the same line of work you can search your network (users of that site whose bookmarks you subscribe to) and see what they have saved under keywords (tags). Even without that network set up you can generally judge the quality (rule of thumb) by the number of times a URL has been saved by other people.

]]> Comment on Using Myst within Literacy - Week One by Mandy http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/using-myst-within-literacy-week-one/#comment-140 Mandy Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:52:01 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=173#comment-140 Sounds like everyone had lots of fun. Sounds like everyone had lots of fun.

]]> Comment on Playing with Wordle by Mrkp http://www.mrwarner.com/2008/11/uses-for-wordle/#comment-139 Mrkp Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:22:49 +0000 http://www.mrwarner.com/?p=167#comment-139 Just an additional thought on using wordle in the classroom. I'm going to get children to write a character discription or setting at the start of a unit and put in wordle. I suspect I will get lots of words like 'big' etc Then I'm going to repeat the process after some input and hopefully see a clear difference! Should be interesting. Just an additional thought on using wordle in the classroom. I’m going to get children to write a character discription or setting at the start of a unit and put in wordle. I suspect I will get lots of words like ‘big’ etc
Then I’m going to repeat the process after some input and hopefully see a clear difference! Should be interesting.

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