I am Anne Mirtschin, a teacher in a small P-12 rural school, Hawkesdale P12 College, in the Western District of country Victoria, in south eastern Australian. I teach Information Technology to grades 2 -12 and accounting. Web 2.0 has become a passion of mine and I love this journey I have taken with my classes. Hope you enjoy sharing it with me! In 2009, I have several goals, the paramount one being the continuation and extension of a virtual classroom with connections to the globe.
A movie by a year 8 student on our school See the movie
2007 was very much a learning year of experimentation. 2008 will be similar no doubt, but I hope to consolidate the lessons learnt from last year to create a rich learning environment for my students where they can connect with local, national and global communities.
Podcasting has been a favourite web 2.0 application and we can be found at www.murch.podomatic.com or we are technokids in iTunes. Our digital stories can be seen by a search for murch in teachertube.
Students in 2008, commenced individual blogs. Their blogs can be read by scrolling down and selecting the appropriate year level links. Other global blogger links can also be found. ]
Listen to the year8s of 2008, say g’day, please say hello back.
Other blogs :- Teacher blog and Backyard blog
My wiki with lots of resources can be found at www.ejourneys.wikispaces.com
contact me: mirtschin@gmail.com
twitter id = murcha
plurk id = murcha
Please feel free to comment and allow my year 8 of 2008 students to say g’day to you.
My timetable as of March 17th, 2009 is as follows:-
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Period 1 | Yr 11 IT | Yr 12 ITA | Yr 12 ITA | Yr 11 ITA | |
| Period 2 | Accounting | Yr 12 ITA | Yr 11 IT | Yr 11 ITA | |
| Period 3 | Yr 12 ITA | Yr 8 IT | Accounting | Yr 11 IT | |
| Period 4 | Yr 12 ITA | Accounting | Accounting | 9/10 IT | |
| Period 5 | Year 7 IT | 9/10 IT | Accounting | ||
| Period 6 | Year 7 IT | 9/10 IT | Yr 8 IT |
In 2009, I am proud and so honoured to be awarded the following:-
- Bailleu-Myer scholarship winner Rural Leader of the Year for Country Education Project
- MS Innovative Teacher of the Year ICTEV Leader of the Year 2008-09
- ICTEV leader of the Year 2009
- Innovative curriculum finalist for DEECD
My virtual involvement
Day in a Sentence with Kevin
Photo Fridays with Bonnie
The commenting challenge on blogs
Flatclassrooms project 2008
Flatclassrooms conference 2009 and from Julie’s blog
Hi Murch! I finally worked out what the problem was – I was trying to use my global teacher username and password, but hadn’t registered for global student (I didn’t realise they were two different sites).
Keep up your great work!
Hi Murch, just surfing on by, lovin your work.
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Hi Anne
Lovely blog. Was wondering if you would be interested in sharing your blog details on the new International Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com
Patricia
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Dear Anne,
Since last Monday and Will’s presentation, I have managed to set up a blog, but there is so much to learn. It was great to see you picture on globalteachers. Hope the visit to Coburg Senior Secondary went well. This is all very exciting and confusing,
Cheers, Jacque
Hi Ann,
What an amazing blog……….I need more time than I have right now to really look into it.
Technomaths is going well, I am hoping to put slideshare and animoto on next.
Thanks for your patience and support for me with my e journey and showing me all the fabulous ways web 2.0 can be used!
Ps, your cluster map looks ill……..! ; ) I joke!……There are so many dots EVERYwhere..its a credit to you!! Amazing!
Hi Anne,
Thanks for the comment….wow what an amazing blog I think its fantastic!!! I would love to do some work with you and your children.
Rochdale is also cold and wet but this is supposedly our summer. Actually we are in the middle of a 3 day heat wave and all you can hear is people moaning about the heat….we Brits are never happy!
Bye for now
Silvana
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Anne
Enjoyed meeting with you on Friday. Have at last got a chance to wander your pages. I am going to start by allowing some students to deliver their class talks via podcasts next term.
Have a well earned break.
Richard
Thanx for the crash course in bloggin, I now have a lovely new page but nothing on it until I work out how! This is my 1st ever message on a blog
Anne, thanks for visiting us today to share your expert advise and knowledge on blogging. I’m looking forward to exploring the possibilities of blogging with Global Teacher and Global Student. My head is spinning. You were very patient in teaching us. I am looking forward to doing a project with another school when I get my head around adding to and editing my own blog. See you on line