Leigh Newton

Location
Baku,   OUTSIDEAUS,   Azerbaijan
Sector
International Education
Interests
Information Literacy, Games, Languages, Literacy, educators use of new technologies, Digital Storytelling, blogging, IB
edna Groups memberships

About Me

Leigh Newton's Whiteboard

On 17 May 2008 Kerrie Smith wrote
Hello Leigh The RSS link for the IB page is http://me.edu.au/c/IB/rss I have put that in Links
On 15 May 2008 Kerrie Smith wrote
Leigh I have created an IB community - hust search for IB
On 15 May 2008 Kerrie Smith wrote
Hello Leigh the software we are using for me.edu was developed in house from open source components and is also hosted here. In the case of edna Groups we used Moodle, also open source, so we get to add plug ins etc.and we also host it here. BTW me.edu is about to get a blog My only experience of Ning is through CrimeSpace but it is hard there to get a sense of community
On 14 May 2008 Kerrie Smith wrote
Hello Leigh I wondering if it is worth setting up a communities of Australian overseas?
On 13 May 2008 Pru Mitchell wrote
Hi Leigh, it does take a bit of a headshift having a conversation this way. All the best for the Exhibition. PYP certainly seems to be popular in South Australia, so hopefully there will be something waiting for you when you come back. Cheers, Pru
On 10 May 2008 Leigh Newton wrote
It uses the IB, so I'm using the Primary Years Program, being a grade 5 teacher, and am loving it. We are in the last days of the culminating unit (Exhibition), with the big day on Wednesday. We've just been reviewed for re-authorisation for the IB and the reviewers gave a very glowing report to my co-teacher and me. I feel like I have something to offer to a PYP school when I return to Aus. Any schools in SA looking for someone in the last year of PYP?
On 18 Feb 2008 Pru Mitchell wrote
Wow - I thought it was probably a mistype when I saw the location, but you are really the first person registered from Azerbaijan. What curriculum does the International School use there?
On 29 Dec 2007 Leigh Newton wrote
I've been teaching in Istanbul Feb-June 07 and then in Baku, Azerbaijan at the wonderful International School of Azerbaijan. I'm enjoying the school but the city is dirty and noisy. The country is a developing one and is democratic in name only.