All through my US based links on my Learning Network, the feedback and disbelief is being realised as edublogger after edublogger posts about the successful passing of the US Government’s DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act). The first post I read on the issue came from Mark Ahlness, then I read Will Richardson, then Vicki Davis [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2006
I celebrated my 40th birthday last Monday in low key style which was my wish, and had a fun morning with Joanne and the boys down at the National Railway Museum. It’s only about a 15 minute drive from our place to Port Adelaide where it is located and every July holidays, they hold a [...]
I had a go at this last night but obviously didn’t save the draft correctly because here I am having another go at wrapping up the rest of Friday’s CEGSA Conference. I won’t record any more on the Friday morning keynote – I was actually thinking of deleting the post but then Jason and Arti [...]
I was going to write about this last night when everything was fresh in my mind, but I spent time fussing over and organizing my slide presentation for this morning’s joint Presentation with Al Upton. I’ve come to the conclusion that I create slideshows to clarify in my mind what I want to say. I [...]
Geoff is involved in teacher education in Melbourne, Victoria. He believes there is confusion about why technology matters ~ a lot of tokenistic effort by teachers. Bottom up approach – linked to learning theory and how people learn. Top down – does the technology change the way people learn. Humans are flexible learners – used [...]
Presentation by Greg Gebhart. Works @ Moana College in Melbourne and part-time for NetAlert. Netalert established in 1999. Can be booked for schools. Broadband and dialup converge by 2008 – latest study said that very few kids access from a bedroom. Predators can lure someone in 7 or 8 minutes before they can be in [...]
Peter‘s session is on the use of within in the classroom – a quick and dirty way of web authoring but a great way of enabling collaboration. Showed us Wikipedia, then Uncyclopedia, a wiki where you can spin a yarn. His presentation was authored on a wiki – Waraku Education Wikispace. It can only be [...]
Derek Wenmoth, Director eLearning CORE Education Ltd Christchurch NEW ZEALAND with his keynote was titled,” Thinking Digitally”. He started by relating a story about his father-in-law who was confronted by a group of youths who disappeared quickly after a few words. Derek’s son suggested to his grandfather that he should have taken a photo of [...]
Sometimes, the phrase “Couldn’t have said it better myself” is appropriate when reading the posts and comments across my Learning Network. Here are a few that have caused my meager brain to click up a gear….. Bill Kerr is in fine form again, really looking at the “education big picture” here in Australia in a [...]
I’ve been enjoying the holiday break and spending some quality time with the family. I went to Teachers Golf Day on the Monday at the wonderful Murray Bridge Golf Club. I was my usual inconsistent self mixing in two birdies with some atrocious holes including sailing a long tee shot over the out-of-bounds fence onto [...]
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