Action Research and Exploratree

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Nov 08 2007

Posted at 10:01 pm under Action Research, Thinking Tools

I know I have been a little quieter of late but I have been working on some objectives for our cluster for next year. Some of the schools will be looking into action research as a possible model for next year. I put together a presentation about action research to present at our last meeting. If anyone wants a copy of this presentation, you can go to this address to download it. Some schools are worried about the workload that this model would place upon staff but most can see that there would be value in staff looking at why they are using ICT in the classroom. We will have to see what happens at our next meeting as to how many schools use this approach in 2008.

While I was looking through Rachel Boyd’s Delicious links (thanks Rachel), I found a link to Exploratree. This free tool from FutureLab allows you to use a range of visual organisers or create your own using the tools provided. You can invite others to collaborate on the map with you.

Finally, I have found a brilliant example of a wiki being used as a resource for the social science’s department in a secondary school. Go and check it out.

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4 Responses to “Action Research and Exploratree”

Moturoaon 08 Nov 2007 at 11:14 pm 1

Wonderful PPT Suzie. Just excellent.

You are inspiring.

Thank you.

Allanah
Korero Pt Englandon 09 Nov 2007 at 9:44 pm 2

Thanks Suzie

As always, you say it so well and I am going to refer other people here too.

Dorothy
Marnie Thomason 10 Nov 2007 at 4:01 pm 3

Great slideshow Suzie. There is always the workload issue but becoming the learner is the biggest step teachers need to make to begin to shift their pedagogy. Managing the workload of becoming the learner is an important thing to learn to manage as a teacher for the future. I have been working hard on that lately!
Iain CBon 16 Nov 2007 at 11:06 am 4

Wonderful stuff Suzie! We are looking at action research for our final year as well, and it was great to see these great resources in your blog post. Thanks so much.

A key issue for us is de-mystifying and explaining the process, so as not to scare the pants off too many teachers! Your power point will certainly help.

Thanks also for the iRed tip, I’ll definitely be checking out that piece of freeware.