http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org Creating one addict at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:09:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Christmas wiki I am a self-confessed Christmas freak. There is nothing I like more than putting up a tree and getting out the tinsel. That love of the festive season has spilled over into my online life through a Christmas links wiki I set up a few years back that has ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/11/17/christmas-pbworks-and-mrs-pancake/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="186" caption="Teacher TV"][/caption] The UK have a number of fabulous online resources for teachers and one of my favourites has to be Teachers TV. There are a huge number of videos on almost any teacher topic you can think of with matching downloadable resources. As a registered member, I ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/11/10/teacher-tv/ Yes - I have maintained a bit of a blog silence for awhile now as I was in the final weeks of pregnancy and focused on getting things organised for our new arrival. I can now announce to the world that we have a new baby girl called Zoe. She ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/new-addition-to-the-vesper-clan/ Introduction I was approached recently by Karen Schweitzer as she wanted to be a guest blogger on this blog. She picked a topic that she thought teachers would find useful - information on social networking sites that we can use as educators. Thanks to Karen for approaching me about posting and ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/08/17/20-social-networking-sites-for-teachers/ The second blog post in the series of ideas from clusters is half written but it is taking a back seat while I just share a few fun and educational games I've been playing. I followed a link on Twitter which took me to a directory of free flash games and ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/06/13/free-flash-educational-games/ In my role, I get to visit each of the clusters I work with and see what is happening in individual schools. This gives me the chance to see a lot of creative and interesting ideas in action. I have visited six out of the nine clusters I work with ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/interesting-ideas-from-clusters-part-one/ Hello all!  Yes - I know - there has been a great deal of nothing happening on this blog as of late :-) Hopefully, I will be able to get back into regular updates! Nelson ICT conference I thought I would blog this time around about interesting discussions that I had at ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/04/26/musings-over-discussions-with-colleagues/ I have to admit that recently I have not been 'playing' with as many new tools as I have done previously. I think that this is partially because the tools I do use on a regular basis meet most of my online needs.  I don't often see things that either ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/03/08/new-tools-and-sites/ I seem to be having a bit of a run on interesting behaviour on my wikis. I was on my educational software wiki today and discovered a YouTube video had been added to the front page with the title 'Latest resource'. Not wanting to be too territorial, I checked out ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/03/02/wikis-being-used-for-advertising/ We have been using Blip.tv to host quite a few CORE videos recently. We went with Blip as it allows you to embed private videos which we needed - especially with Google Video disappearing (and the quality of Google Video was pretty dire too!). CORE did need to pay to ... http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2009/02/19/customising-players-with-bliptv/