Boon Yih Mah

Boon Yih Mah, Malaysia, Tertiary, Further, Open Distance Learning, Directory

Mah, Boon Yih is a full-time lecturer at Academy of Language Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Penang Campus in Penang, Malaysia. He holds two degrees: B.A. Ed. (Hons) in ELS from USM and M.A. (Applied Linguistics) from UUM.

He has registered with IACSIT, AsiaCALL, Asia TEFL, MELTA, and PELLTA. He is also a language editor of refereed journals and reviewer of international conference papers. He has published more than 15 papers in national and international conference proceedings as well as refereed journals. Mah Boon Yih's Blog has won him a Gold Medal in the 7th IID 2010 and ITEX Silver Medal in the 21st ITEX 2010.

In addition, he has garnered Silver Medal in IID Kedah 2010 and Gold Medal in IID 2010 SE. He was selected for inclusion in the "Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012 (11th Edition)" and Who's Who in Asia 2012 (2nd Edition) by Marquis Who’s Who (United States of America). His fields of interest include e-learning 2.0, weblog, language development theories, critical thinking skills and writing.

Ubiquitous Academic - currently offline
A directory where all educational Weblogs, Wikis, CMS, LMS, and WWW are under one roof.

Theme: directory, weblog, wiki, CMS, LMS, WWW, e-learning

Allanah King

Allanah King, New Zealand, Primary

Primary School teacher using ICT to engage and help children learn in new ways.

Life is not a Race to be First Finsished
A mixture of thoughts and resources that will be helpful for primary school classroom teachers.

Theme: tools, Web2.0, cloud, blog, podcast, wiki

Suryaveer Singh

Suryaveer Singh, India, Secondary, Geography

Geographer from New Dehli, India. Working as Post Graduate Teacher of Geography in S.D.Public School, Pitampura Delhi since last 7 years. Recently have moved into e-learning and have been successful in adapting with them. Since last year I have explored and used many tools in making Geography learning a more meaningful.

Discover Geography
This blog and wiki supplement my classroom teaching and what more they help me in delivery of complicated concepts and subject enrichment. It gives them all kind of information and scope for futuristic learning.

ICT in Education
This is another blog for teachers where I share my experiences of being an e-teacher.

Theme: geography, blog, wiki, education, e-learning

Laura Pasquini

Laura Pasquini, USA, Higher Education

As a self-declared geek and a self-taught techie, I am interested in bringing online collaborative tools into the realm of instruction and advising. Currently working at the University of North Texas as an Academic Advisor in the College of Business, however has previous experience at higher educations in Canada, France & the UK in student affairs and support services.

I have an M.S. in Education from Niagara University and a certificate in E-Learning from the University of Toronto, and will be pursuing a PhD in Applied Technology & Performance Improvement in the near future.

My research interests relate to curriculum and program development to encourage collaborative learning with web 2.0 tools and electronic resources, including podcasts, online social networks, photo/video sharing, social bookmarks, blogs, and wikis. I like learning, connecting & sharing knowledge.

TechKNOW Tools
Sharing ideas, resources, and tools of how educators can best connect with learners online.

More about me: Laura Pasquini

Theme: collaboration, college, connection, education, highered, K-12, learning, community, resources, socialmedia, students, teaching technology, web2.0, wikis

Audrey Nay

Audrey Nay, Australia, Primary, Web 2.0

51 yr old female been enjoying teaching since before 1979 - K-6, teacher librarian from 2000 to current in primary school with 325 students, wife, mother to five kids 17-23 plus a son-in-law :-)

Coffs Harbour Teacher Librarians
To introduce teachers to up to date happenings in ICT and especially new exciting and stimulating technology tools and strategies for their successful implementation.

Theme: web 2.0, internet use, teaching tools, elearning, educational technology, web resources, interactive white boards, blogging, wikis, podcasts

Joanna Sanders Bobiash

Joanna Sanders Bobiash, Canada, Elementary Grades 4 to 8

My current assignment is as a 4/5 French Immersion Teacher for Regina Public Schools. I'm also the Teacher responsible for Educational Technology in my school.

My Adventures in Educational Technology
This is a blog to share ways that I've integrated educational technology into my teaching. It is also a blog that allows for reflection and planning through comments and sharing of information and web links.

Theme: edtech, education, english, french, digital storytelling, elementary, video, web 2.0, blogging, writing, wiki, collaboration, evaluation, history, technology, literacy, numeracy

Kim Trefz

Kim Trefz, USA, Primary, English

I have a passion for teaching grammar and writing and have done so for the past 10 years. I currently teach 5th grade English at the largest all-boys' elementary school in the country.

Mrs. Trefz's 5th Grade Blog
I have created an interactive blog where the students can have a "Techs Book" instead of a "Text Book." This is where they can write with a purpose as they make global connections.

Theme: : Web 2.0, innovative, interactive, teaching grammar through writing, wiki, global connections, technology tools, learning styles, critical and creative thinking.

Carolynn Bruton

Carolynn Bruton, Cape Town, South Africa, Primary, Information Technology, eLearning, Computers

I have spent the past 40 years as a Junior School English & Phys Ed. teacher. I specialised as a computer teacher about 18 years ago. I was formerly at Kingswood College in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.

I have been at Springfield Convent Junior School in Cape Town since 1996. My Teacher/Librarian and I moved into a beautiful new media centre this year where my workload has increased but so has my job satisfaction.

A Cape Town teacher's rumblings
I write Cape Town computer teacher’s rumblings. My aim is to share resources I’ve found useful, lessons which have been great and to document interesting family happenings. I began blogging in 2007 on WordPress and have been encouraged through Maggie Verster’s 2008 blogging course to revive my blogging skills.

Theme: student, educational, games, favthumbs, technology, web2.0, bookmarking, exchanges, video, reading, inspiration, wiki, mindmap

Malik Richardson

Malik Richardson, USA, Secondary, EdTech, Mathematics

Involved with education for over nine years and technology since 1983. Marry the two thus has produced this self-proclaimed edtech guru.

Mr. R.'s Blog Spot 2.0
A place of refuge to receive random thoughts and information from a future pioneer in education technology.

web: http://mrarrah.com
twitter: mrich1911

Theme: education, technology, edtech, math, smartboard, iwb, promethean, wiki, podcast, video

Andrew Bendelow

Andrew Bendelow, USA, Secondary, Literacy

Twenty years of classroom teaching, and I'm just now starting to figure it out.

The Wikiness
A record of my readings and ruminations on how Web 2.0 technologies can enhance instruction.

Theme: education, high school, web 2.0, wikis, blogs

Martín Núñez

Martín Núñez, España, Secundaria

Profesor de Física y Química y Coordinador TIC.

La Fragua del TIC - currently offline
Nuevos tiempos, nuevos métodos, o del uso de las TIC en el aula.

Theme: blogs, buscadores, ciencias, cms, cnice, conversor curiosidades, debate, educación, educarex, favoritos, fisica, fotografía, fotografias, fotos, geografía, internet, joomla, juegos, lengua, linux, lourdes, domenech, matemáticas, musica, navegadores, no comments, opinión portales, premios, presentaciones, quimica recursos, recursos, software, redes sociales, reflexiones, rss, software libre, tesoros, tic, video, videos, visitas, Web 2.0, wikis, youtube

Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Lee Baber, Thomas Locke

Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Lee Baber, Thomas Locke, USA, K-13, Cross Curricular

Not long ago a colleague in the National Writing Project wrote to several teachers she is consulting with: “Just to let everyone know, the Wednesday evening Teachers Teaching Teachers sessions are amazing and definitely a fast track into some timely PD and community building!”

We hope this is true for a growing number of teachers. We like to think that it’s our perspectives as regular classroom teachers that makes our webcast special.

Teachers Teaching Teachers
The main participants on the blog, podcast, and webcast are K-13 teachers who enjoy telling “new stories” about their classrooms. Our favorite question: “Can you tell us a story about that? Something that happened recently in your classroom?” Our motto: “Keep it real!”

Theme: web 2.0, blogging, wikis, podcast, online community, writing

Latest Posts

Sandy Sparks

Sandy Sparks, Ontario, Canada, Primary, Junior, All Subjects

I am a Grade 5 teacher in Ontario Canada. I have been blogging for...... 2 weeks now. So not long. I am interested in using a blog to host podcasts, investigating the use of wiki's in the classroom etc...

edublog
This bog is intended to be used by elementary students and their teacher(s) to explore the world of Web 2.0 and to discover what it has to offer. Here you will find questions and hopefully some answers. It is about using technology in the classroom.

Theme: edublog, podcast, wiki, school, education

Theresa Giakoumatou

Theresa Giakoumatou, Greece, Secondary, History, Greek Language, Classics, Literature

Theresa Giakoumatou is currently an ICT teacher-trainer, focusing on the application of ICT in theoretical subjects. She has been a board member of five conferences on educational technology in Greece and has served as the director of the official educational web portal of the Hellenic Ministry of Education for two years.

During the academic year 2003-4 she has functioned as a co-ordinator of the “Spring of Europe” programme. She contributes regularly to educational journals on the introduction of new technologies in secondary education. She maintains a personal website, Netschoolbook, which caters for the training of teachers and earned a Mobius award in the area of education in 2003, as well as an educational blog TerraComputerata

Netschoolbook also represented Greece in the 1st International Conference on Information Technology in Geneve.

TerraComputerata
A blog for the implementation of ICT in teaching of History, Language and Literature.

Theme: web 2.0, blogs, wikis, educational technology

Juergen Wagner

Jürgen Wagner, Germany, Secondary, Adult, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German

Foreign Language Teacher (French / English) for 30 years plus e-learning specialist for 4.

Fremdsprachen und Neue Medien
InfoBlog for teachers of French, English, Spanish, Italian, German (as Foreign languages) with a focus on how edtech can be used in the classroom.

Theme: podcast, blog, wiki, web 2.0, moodle, DaF, EFL, ESL, FLE, ELE, IT

Sue Wyatt

Sue Wyatt (nickname tasteach), Australia, Primary, Middle School, Secondary

Nearing retirement, but using blogs, wikis and smartboard in grade 6/7 class this year.

Miss W. and her Smartboard
Anything and everything relating to school and students in grades 6/7.

Technology in our classroom
My class blog.

Themes: tasmania, smartboard, wiki, newbie, students

Ian McLean

Ian McLean, Australia, Primary, Elementary, School Librarianship

Ian McLean is a Sydney-based Australian primary (elementary) teacher-librarian, who spends way too much of his spare time blogging in cyberspace. He is a former editor of the NSW Department of Education and Training’s professional journal, Scan (1998-2002), and a past President of the School Libraries Section (NSW Group) of ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association).

Ian also reviews children’s literature and teaching resources for Scan and the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge Committee. Ian enjoys learning - along with his students and teaching colleagues - about the wonders of information and communications technology (ICT) in education.

Booked Inn: Heroic Adventures in Teacher-Librarianship
Aspects and challenges of teacher-librarianship in a primary(elementary) school in New South Wales, Australia, but always with apositive outlook.

Theme: blogs, book raps, children's literature, collaborative teaching, ICT,OASIS, schools, teacher librarianship, Web 2.0, wikis

Joan Vinall-Cox

Joan Vinall-Cox, Canada, Tertiary, All Subjects

I am passionately interested in using computers to support writing and research, and in Multiple Intelligences, Attention Deficit Disorder and its connection to creativity, Jung, Campbell's Monomyth, and arts-based Narrative Inquiry. I received my doctorate in 2004, in education, focussing on the computer and web in teaching. Currently, I do some sessional lecturing, in particular in Oral Rhetoric, plus I consult on writing skills, and on computer use for communications, through my business, JNthWEB.

WebTools For Learners
In this blog I focus on how to use the web for learning and for academic and business purposes, with a focus on communications, writing, and presentations.

Theme: learning, elearning, edtech, academic writing, social media, wordpress, web2.0, wikis

Rodd Lucier

Rodd Lucier, Canada, Elementary, Secondary, K-12, All Subjects

As a teacher who has used media and other communications technologies to engage learners for more than 20 years, I'm looking for opportunities to to engage in meaningful conversations with teachers who see themselves as learners.

The Clever Sheep
The Clever Sheep aims to assist teachers in harnessing evolving e-learning tools, internet sites, and Web 2.0 technologies to engage 21st century student learners. If you're an educator who is ready to learn about established and evolving technologies like blogs, wikis, podcasts and more, this may be the best place to start!

'Teacher 2.0'
The clever sheep isn't likely to follow the flock and is more likely to take risks. This podcast is intended to engage educators in discussion about how various communications technologies can be harnessed to engage learners of all types. The show runs many times each week, usually from 4-7 minutes and is available on iTunes or by RSS subscription.

Theme: e-learning, elearning, classroom, web2.0, technology, network, tools, communication, blog, wiki, collaboration, online learning

Vaughn Branom

Vaughn Branom, Houston, Texas, USA, Elementary, Secondary, All Subjects

Public school librarian with experience ranging from traditional to 21st century! Serve as District Library Information Specialist where I support 39 campus librarians and anyone else who asks!

A Library By Any Other Name
Share thoughts and information about and for school libraries, librarians, teachers, and anyone else who is interested in what I find about online resources, 2.0 anything, children's & YA books and reading interests.

Try to share all types of curriculum interests and needs, technology integration ideas, plus stuff that just interests me on the chance it might interest someone else.

Theme: authors, books, curriculum, libraries, librarians, web 2.0, library 2.0, collaboration, blogs, blogging, staff development

Lily Pad Playground
My Library2Play 23 Things blog where I share my fun and frustrations with regards to the 23 Things staff development event we are doing with district librarians & teachers, library school students, and librarians from around Texas.

Theme: 23 things, image generators, google, search engines, blogs, blogging, wikis, open source resources