About
My name is Sue and I am a middle school teacher in Tasmania, Australia. I am nearing retirement age, but still love my teaching. This year we have a new smartboard in the classroom so hopefully both the students and I will learn together about the wonders of this new technology. I am also into students keeping their work in a computer portfolio, so thought maybe blogging could be used as well. My interests outside of teaching are genealogy, reading and chatting with my friends on the internet. But the thing I enjoy the most is travelling and finding out about places around the world.
Hi Sue! Great blog! I just left a comment on your students’ blog and thought I’d say hi and make contact with you here via your blog. Happy Easter! Michael
Hi Miss Wyatt
Such great work with the blog.
I’m working with an organisation called http://www.edna.edu.au/ and I also work with a couple of other teachers who are interested in blogging. Our blog is wormbins@edublogs.org
It would be great to get in touch on the telephone or skype to chat about blogging and possibly working together. You can email me at concetta.gotlieb@mac.com.
Talk to you soon,
Concetta
Hi, Sue,
I’m a newbie (58 year old one) at blogging and found your blogs while searching for examples. My role is to support K-5 teachers in the integration of technology so it’s about time for me to join blogging, eh? We’re also moving toward all classrooms having mounted SMARTBoards, projects, tv tuners, etc. in all our elementaries (K-5) within the next 24 months. We’ve basically gone from 0 to about 70 new installs this school year with more coming each month so it’s a very high learning curve for us all :>)
I hope to make it back to your blogs often and even more to get my going! The two I’m currently doing are http://syversoncollegialstudy.blogspot.com/ which is basically a minutes blog of our collegial study group, and then http://syversonbrookfieldelementary.blogspot.com/ which is intended to be my work blog.
My great-nephew will love that I wrote to a teacher in Tasmania. His dog’s name is Tas!
Who knows, maybe someday we’ll meet,
Lynn
I really admire teachers who always manage to keep learning new ways to teach throughout their entire careers. Way to go Sue!
Hi Sue If it wasn’t for this challenge I also would not know some one in Tasmania Australia. My focus is parent involvement but blogging is a passion. Imagine retirees still making connections about the things we love to do.
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Dear Sue,
Another great blog from an Australian teacher. I have been looking at lots lately and the ones from Australia and New Zealand seems streets ahead of most I read in the UK (with the exception of Ewan McIntosh in Scotland who has probably the best education blog in Europe).
I am writing to see if any of your students or colleauges might like to give our free maths games a try at http://www.tutpup.com They are head-to-head simple competitive maths and spelling games. We are still in beta, so the site changes quite often but we have about 30k registered users (mostly in the UK and Asia) but with an increasing number of schools from countries like Australia and New Zealand.
I would be very interested in your feedback because I didn’t get a chance to test Tutpup out in any Tasmanian schools when I was in Australian in April, although I did manage to do some in Sydney and in Wangaratta (where my nephews live and where I went to school).
Yours sincerely,
Richard Taylor
Director of Play @ Tutpup
Soho W1D 4DT
London
UK
Sue,
Thanks for commenting and leaving your environmentally “green” footprint on my Cluster Map! My students and I were intrigued that you live and teach in Tasmania since we love learning about its wildlife.
Take care,
Jennifer Gelat
Resource Inclusion
McKinney, TX
BTW, my mother’s last name is Wyatt, too. Small world. :0)
Hi Sue,
You have inspired me to learn more about this! Look at all these new contacts you have…see you next Monday for another lesson.
Cheers, Megan
i love your blog is cool and great
Hey Sue!
Thanks for your blogging inspiration. I know my kids really enjoyed having you come and drop a comment on their site. I can’t wait to try and do more exciting things with our blogs in the coming weeks.
Cheers! and I forgot to mention I’m also a Wallabies fan too.
Lee
Hi Sue,
I agree it is nicer to drive by car when traveling quite a distance.I would say that the most interesting place from the town I live in the USA to where I visit in Mexico would be Morelia, Mexico because there evreything is made from stones and there is many interesting statues. Also, it is amazing how the cathedrals look from both the inside and out. The Cathedrals are also made from stones. Morelia is a pretty incredible city.
http://ulisesf09.edublogs.org/
Hey there!
I was just wondering if I might ask you for some help for our podcast we are gathering some user comments to use for our show. We need to have everyone’s opinion on the subject.
The post can be found here.
http://mrwiniks.edublogs.org/2008/10/08/our-first-podcast-calling-on-everyone-for-help/
Thanks to you Sue and anyone that can participate.
Lee Winik
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