Jul 20 2007
Athens IB Conference and the Assignment
Well the usual weblog post apology will come forth – yes it has been a while but if you excuse me moving country, moving school, finishing (YES I DID!) the assignment, buying a car and finally going to the IB conference on ITGS – Information Technology in a Global Society has all taken its toll not to mention time.
The assignment ended well, with a thorough analysis of how the Social Network – The French Connection worked within a MFL secondary school environment. The conclusions were not all positive but indicate that their is a future for the use of social networks within schools under certain conditions. Over the next few posts are will place extracts of the paper, along with a link to its entirety in .PDF format.
The IB conference in Athens was very interesting mainly for being able to meet so many IT teachers in the one environment. The course itself was run by Gordon Mathewmann from the International School of Vienna. Gordon was an excellent course guide, able to fend off the many criticisms about the course and other areas while maintaining a sense of humour! Over four days the course was outlined with many practical examples of ideas for teaching and learning. The ITGS course is from first glance an interesting one which focuses on ethical and social issues as well as the technical and applications side. It seems as if there have been many changes and many more to come, but considering it is the ONLY ICT based course apart from a hardcore programming course it seems as if it will suit my conversational facilitation style. I am the moment setting up new weblogs to focus as the background the ITGS and MYP Technology courses and feel free to have a look as they are setup.
My new school starts on the 9th of August so expect more posts and research information to start coming again soon……I promise.
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