Clarence Fisher posted a few days back about the concept of Centres of Innovation and lamented the demise of this concept in the Canadian education system. At the national level, the Canadian government does almost nothing to support innovation in education and my provincial government (who is responsible for education) designs resources for schools to [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2005
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My boss forwarded the above mentioned policy for me to read through and evaluate a while back. It outlines the South Australian education system’s proposed view forward in the world of educational technology until 2008. The draft policy is open for feedback until November 3O so my goal here is to create my own blog [...]
Following from D’Arcy Norman‘s posts on What Pre-1985 Video Character Am I? and Bruce Effing Boxleitner? where he finds out what fictional character he would be in these worlds, comes a new (well, new to me) alternative where one can create a cartoon character based on yourself. Some students in my class showed me this [...]
Well, the school’s Governing Council has given the go-ahead for the purchase of and installation of six more ActivBoards in our classrooms to go with the six that were installed in August. I presented the plans to my colleagues a few weks back and stated that we (the ICT committee and leadership) were after expressions [...]
Along with the generous bloggers who have stopped by and added comments to my blog, I’d like to acknowledge James Farmer and his whole edublogs community vision. Currently, he is highlighting my blog as one of three feature edublogs which is probably the reason traffic has increased over the last week. Also, this led to [...]
Back in 2003, I was part of a PLICT research grant that looked at the relevancy of South Australian School websites to their students. I’ve always been keen on learning about website design right from using Netscape Composer back in ’97 to the various incarnations of FrontPage to the 30 hour DreamWeaver 2004 course I [...]
Caught the second half of this segment on Channel Nine’s Today show on blogging. I found the link to a video re-run of it posted here. I don’t know if it will be up after the next show at 6 am Australian EST. So that’s in about 8 hours – check it out to see [...]
I just love the way that blogs can throw up responses to issues that are currently percolating around in my brain. Answers are not always provided but there’s always a new angle of perspective, fresh directions to pursue and new learning guaranteed. So, over the last few days I’ve been grinding my teeth over the [...]
The first six ActivBoards are humming along as well as can be expected with our pioneering bunch from ActivBoarding. Although I still moan regularly about the fact that 95% of the posts there come from me, I have got my boss to check out educational blogging and she even contributed a post. I think I [...]
One of the great aspects of blogs is that your content is published to a potential worldwide audience. However when you start off in a purposeful blog, you realise that it could take a while before anyone else seeks to interact with you. Now that’s not a bad thing because if you start off blogging [...]
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