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		<title>Blogging does make a difference &#8211; one teaspoon at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the purposes of my blogging has been to been to effect change. I&#8217;ve never for one minute thought that me putting my learning out there would shift major mountains but I did and still do think it could be used as model a different way of looking at how we document and develop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2691&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The post in which I come out as an Apple Groupie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Communication Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear the I suspect I will be the subject of much public humiliation both on the blog and via twitter for this post. But here goes. Despite my love of social networking and the fact I am pretty much almost always online, I actually run a very low-fi operation. My laptop is five years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2679&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Reflection: More than the sum of their academic parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTC 11 - Assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have students. 29 of them to be exact. When people talk about raising class sizes as if just a couple of kids won&#8217;t make much more of a difference I wonder if they have ever actually experienced what is like to  mark and analyse the results of 29 students.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong I&#8217;m the sort [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2677&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are you blogging with your class?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand Registered Teacher Criteria 6.1 Registered teachers articulate clearly the aims of their teaching, give sound professional reasons for adopting these aims, and implement them in their practice. I&#8217;ve often said that first thing anyone needs to do when setting up a blog is think about why they are blogging. In fact I&#8217;m going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2488&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Analog Teacher Education = Digital Teacher?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commerce Commission released an interesting report back in January on the implementation of high speed broadband into New Zealand schools. The report itself is worth a read for a general overview of the potential that high speed internet will bring to the New Zealand compulsory school sector.  However the area of greatest interest to me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2634&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Reflection: My first RTC reflection</title>
		<link>http://traintheteacher.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/weekly-reflection-my-first-rtc-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strictly speaking this isn&#8217;t my first post that demonstrates competency in one of the  New Zealand Registered Teacher Criteria. However since I&#8217;ve finally got my project under way, let&#8217;s get this RTC party started. New Zealand Registered Teacher Criteria 1.i Registered teachers engage in ethical, respectful, positive and collaborative professional relationships with whānau and other carers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2636&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Strangeblog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RTC</title>
		<link>http://traintheteacher.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/dr-strangeblog-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-rtc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite my somewhat irreverent post title induction into the teaching profession in New Zealand is serious business. Beginning Teachers are granted provisional registration when they start their teaching career and spend at least two years being supervised by an assigned mentor before they can apply for full registration. In order to gain full registration Beginning Teachers are required [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2629&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accountability &#8211; I do not think it means what you think it means</title>
		<link>http://traintheteacher.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/accountabilty-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie The Princess Bride, you&#8217;ll know that the character Vizzini keeps referring to various situations in the movie as being “inconceivable.” You&#8217;ll also know that eventually Inigio Montoya responds to Vizzini&#8217;s cries of &#8220;inconceivable&#8221; with the second best line in the movie: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2033&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Reflection: I&#8217;m a stranger here myself</title>
		<link>http://traintheteacher.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/weekly-reflection-im-a-stranger-here-myself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much you read the guidebook the tired cliché about travelling is true, being there is everything. Which brings me to Russia. The palaces of Saint Petersburg, Red square, Saint Basil&#8217;s cathedral, Yekaterinburg, Lake Baikal, the frozen tundra of Siberia and rumours of the world&#8217;s most bizarre museum in Vladivostok. Russia was always going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2609&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January Byte Counting &#8211; Blog stats</title>
		<link>http://traintheteacher.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/january-byte-counting-blog-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to byte counting, 2012. I didn&#8217;t keep much in the way of stats in December but had my busiest day ever on December 6 with 923 hits after the charter schools went (by my standards) viral. Despite only starting posting from January 23,  I had a reasonably large amount of traffic considering it was the school holidays. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=traintheteacher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18588212&amp;post=2587&amp;subd=traintheteacher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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