Em Holliday

I've come across two interesting blog posts about using ICT to support teaching and more importantly organise the enormous amount of admin that teachers face daily. Being a beginning teacher I'm open to suggestions on organisation and maybe by using these resources I can reach the point where the computer on my desk is an instantly accessible and perfectly coordinated filing and admin system.

I love ICT - when it works. My problem with the above ideal is that my whole world freezes when something goes wrong with the computer (or my ability to communicate/put up with said computer!) And what if my files are corrupted or, heaven forbid, the hard drive dies or the whole thing is stolen! Take today, for example. I cannot access the blog posts and videos I felt like looking at (since I finally read my RSS feeds after how many weeks) because we've gone over the monthly download limit and so it would be faster to use snail mail than email until the 15th!

These two urls point to some useful tools for orgainsing electronically and once I have enough download credits again I'll download them and trial them and tell you how they go!

http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/

http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/cmcteacher/archive/2007/10/08/helpful-resources.aspx