Margo+Edgar+-+Pascoe+Vale+Primary+School

I teach Grade 5/6 at Pascoe Vale Primary (suburban school in Melbourne) - just off the Tullamarine freeway on the way to the airport. I have taught every grade level in my 30 odd years teaching except Preps - but I love Grade 5/6 more than any other grade level. I have also trained as a Teacher Librarian and worked as a Library Specialist for a number of years. I taught in country Victoria for a number of years - Chewton, Bendiigo and East Loddon. Our 5/6 students lease netbooks from the school and the access to 24/7 digital technology and changes to pedagogy continue to challenge and excite me as a teacher. I have been using computers in schools since the first Apple something (IIe?) was wheeled into my classroom in 1981 and spend far too much time exploring the Internet, playing with web tools and reading other people's blogs. (That is what my family tells me.) I am finally starting to dip my toe into contributing to twitter, commenting on others blogs etc - for some reason I have always found this challenging even though I love the learning challenges I get from everyone else's contributions. I have two daughters, one is at Melbourne Uni studying to be a Dentist, the other is studying Digital Media at Swinburne Uni. They both still live at home and keep telling me they plan to be here for a number of years while they complete their studies.

Find me on Twitter : @medg56 My almost unused blog - though it does link to all our student blogs : [] Our 5/6 wikispace : http://pascoevale5-6.wikispaces.com/ Diigo links : [] Skype : margo.edgar