With one hour to go before the New Year here in Adelaide, I’d just like to thank everyone who has read, commented or linked to this blog during 2006 – thanks to all of you for being part of my learning network. My online New Year’s resolution – to finally start using Technorati tags!!
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
One of my favourite Seinfeld episodes has Jerry and George squaring off as to who is the bigger idiot. Jerry is convinced that his actions establish him as the champion of idiocy, but George trumps him with a superior list of misdeeds: “…So please, a little respect, for I am Costanza, Lord of the Idiots.“ [...]
I really liked Dave Cormier’s Top 10 (11) list for 2006 – so much that I had a go in the Comments at a couple of his choices being US-centric and maybe not meaning as much to the rest of the educational technology world. I echoed another Canadian (Stephen Downes, Dave being the first referenced [...]
My ICT research project has fallen to the back of the priority queue in recent times although my mind hasn’t let go of its existence and the need to pay it some more attention. I did take a day out of the last term to get my two project participants up and going. My action [...]
The five things meme has finally caught up with me via Doug “Left-Handed” Noon and although I risk a mass of people unsubscribing with my dodgy viewpoints, I’ll play. (Although, I had never encountered the word “meme” before blogging.) Hey, the worst that can happen is that I’m confirmed to be as boring as people [...]
I’ve never really gotten into forums, and getting involved in blogging has made it even harder to engage with that format that has been around now for quite a long time. Today, Leigh Blackall has pointed to an EdNa based forum that’s been brewing for a while complete with flaming, self promotion, one liner put [...]
Just read a great post from Tony Forster who has a look at some interesting data comparing literacy/numeracy scores and problem solving scores from different countries. After looking at the stats, Tony offers this analysis: Australia, New Zealand and Canada score significantly higher than USA despite sharing similar cultural backgrounds. I have noticed a significant [...]
Let me start by offering my sincere congratulations to all of this year’s Edublog Awards winners. I am currently listening to the podcast of the awards ceremony (from EdTech Talk) and still reflecting what winning might mean to the winners, and what not winning means to the others. As Alex said, It is an honour [...]
Followed a link out of my Referers section of my blog to find a link and some comments posted on the somewhat controversial website, RateYourTeacher.com on my recent post about Social Networking In The Media. The forum post there highlighted a minor paragraph of mine late in the post that linked to the Advertiser article [...]
The recent exchange of comments following my look at the recent newspaper reporting of social networking sites has had me thinking. I basically inferred that by ignoring student use (and misuse) of web based technologies, teachers were risking irrelevance and would be unable to provide a decent 21st Century education. Now I’m not so sure. [...]
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