Sekolah Bogor Raya

Educational bloggers around the world are currently vying for their place in the sun – an Edublog Award. There are 14 categories from best individual blog to best teacher blog to best educational wiki. All finalists are worth a look; I found a few new blogs that I just had to add to my already-bulging [...]

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On Friday 23 November, the Association of National Plus Schools (ANPS) held an extra-ordinary General assembly to take steps towards becoming a legal entity. This Assembly, opened by the chair Daryl Forde of ACS/Tiara Bangsa and Seemun Suparno of Ichthus, was quickly passed into the hands of the ‘legalization subcommittee’ a group of hardworkers led [...]

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Grade 5 is the first grade in Sekolah Bogor Raya to produce a class blog. It just appeared this week, and it looks great! With lots of students’ work. Check it out here. And if you forget the site name, you can always find it through the link in the school website.

Hopefully, this is just [...]

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Free Rice is a great concept. It gives us the opportunity to have fun gaming, while learning vocabulary and doing good, ie feeding the poor. What more could anyone ask? Try it out at //freerice.com

In the FAQs I learned that companies advertizing at the bottom of the screen pay for the rice. Thanks, guys…. I [...]

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This video, from the Digital Ethnography group at Kansa State University, starts from the premise that “students learn what they do. So, what are they learning when sitting silently in straight rows facing a speaker at the front of the classroom?”

In a detailed response to criticism of his video, Prof. Wesch said, “Another common critique [...]

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Whatever their
purpose and
function, tests are
normally competitive,
individual, and
memory-based.
They tell students
that memorizing
information is more
important than being
able to use that
information.
When assessing our
students, we need to know:
Can they process
information for decision-making?
Can they work together in
a team?
This video from Kyungpook National University, South Korea, argues quite effectively that student assessment is often inappropriate. Basically, it argues that exams should be [...]

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This month for Voices Of The World, grade 4 had to create an Animoto with images of Indonesia and audio of children singing the national anthem. To produce this Animoto, we had to submit about 15 photos with a sound file. The sound file, which features the children singing and playing Indonesia Raya, [...]

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