Monthly Archive for June, 2006

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Comments Are The Lifeblood Of Blogs

As I’ve been pushing my point of view that if you want to get your students into blogging, then you need to be a blogger too, a couple of interesting posts of a supportive and expansionary nature have appeared as a direct or indirect result. Firstly, Doug at Borderland has analysed my previous post and [...]

Blogging Masterclass Reflections

Well, the Masterclass session was very good with both Barbara Ganley and James Farmer offering me a lot of food for thought while at the same time confirming a lot of what I’d already thought or believed. But I’d have to say that the best part of the evening was the conversation afterwards with a [...]

Masterclass Blogging Notes

Barbara Ganley Speaking from her desk at 5.30 am from her classroom. Important for educators to realize that kids are interacting and using these new technologies _ the digital natives cannot leave their digital selves out of the classroom. Those without digital access will be left behind. Quoted Dewey “…education is a social process….” Not [...]

Testing Out A New Scanner

Just testing out a new scanner here at school – super easy to use and under a $100. I had to scan something so drew something inspired from the great comments response to Blog On. Scanned, coloured quickly in Photoshop and uploaded to flickr. 10 mins max spent on this – gee, anyone can be [...]

Moving EdTech Into The Paperback Era

A really interesting skype enabled chat with Alex Hayes last week about his work and mine as well led to an invitation to contribute to a new group blog with a focus on mobile educational technologies. When I look at the blogroll of contributors there, I certainly feel that I’m in a place where I [...]

E-Learning Week In South Australia

This week is eLearning Week here in Adelaide and a few events have been lined up to try and raise awareness of what eLearning is and what it means here in South Australian education. The big event for me of course is the Masterclass on Blogging with Barbara Ganley and James Farmer on Thursday evening, [...]

Quotes Of The Day

For those of you who read this blog via an aggregator or don’t always read the comments, Terry Freedman provided me with one of the best quotes of the year regarding my Blog On post. People who make those sorts of comments would make them whatever the subject. It’s a reflection of them and their [...]

Clearing Bloglines – Everything Must Go

I love Bloglines. It’s one of the first things I check every day when I log on at work and I check for updates far more often than is healthy. But when you are subscribed to a lot of feeds (that’s 107 at last look) some of them can build up in a big backlog [...]