I really like Skype as an instant messaging tool – you don’t have to mess around with headphones and you are also not necessarily interrupting someone else’s workflow just to say g’day. My list of contacts tells me who’s online and I can just tap out a quick message and do some text based social [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
I’ve just sent emails to the State Minister for Education and our State Premier regarding the winding down/shutting down/re-directing online (???) of the Technology School Of the Future here in Adelaide. There has been some movement amongst educators caught in the busied frenzy of reports and the winding up of the school year and two [...]
I organised a release day to work with my volunteer group for my Action Research Project on e-portfolios. My two volunteers Jo and Annabel are two educators from my school who are at very different stages of their careers and agreed to be part of my research question, “Are teacher e-portfolios sustainable?” I wasn’t too [...]
What do you see when you see an Interactive Whiteboard? Admittedly, not everyone who is critical has even seen one in action but that doesn’t prevent anyone from having an opinion. And as IWB fervour builds throughout the South Australian education community (particularly in primary schools) many are wanting to see for themselves to see [...]
Via Stephen Downes, a way to measure what I already suspected! However, if one applies the thinking behind the new Federal Government school reports, then C is where you want to be. As was coined around our school, “C is the new A”. Works for me.
I’m really disappointed and angry. The reason? It has been officially announced that South Australia’s world renowned centre for innovation and training for ICT in education, Technology School Of the Future (generally referred to by most teachers as TSOF) is to be closed and moved from its base at Hindmarsh. I found out via a [...]
Attribution: Image: ‘Pappaw’s card file‘ www.flickr.com/photos/88013032@N00/156934016 I know there are quite a few educators who upload and store their resources online and I’m not as diligent in that regard as I could be. But it can be a real lifesaver. Just as I would never bother with bookmarks on local machines any more – my [...]
It’s a little late but never too late to thank a few people for their kind contribution to my K-12 Online Conference presentation. When I was putting the whole thing together, I kept thinking if it’s just me speaking – well, that could be a bit boring so wouldn’t it be great if I asked [...]
The concepts of networks, groups and communities has me fascinated. The more I read, the less clear I am about what are the defining qualities of each word. I actually suspect that all three words mean different things to different people. Not only that but I suspect that what people think that others think is [...]
Over the weekend, James implemented a major edublogs upgrade that promises lots of new features and capabilities so that the many thousands of us here can have up-to-date blogs that match it with the best of the blogosphere. Just looking at the new Write Post interface reveals new opportunities to embed new pieces of multi-media [...]
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