Monthly Archive for December, 2006

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Comments Trouble

Some people have had difficulties in leaving comments on my blog lately so I thought I’d investigate. Tonight I wanted to respond to two comments left today so using a borrowed laptop from school, I posted the first comment without any problems, adding my details in the required fields. Then when I went to the [...]

Irony Strikes Twice

I had a bit of a promo yesterday for the Edublog Awards and the blogs I’d submitted for nomination getting on the shortlists. I was really chuffed that writers I really value have been given some recognition – that part’s much more important than who wins or loses. But there’s an ironic twist to this [...]

Social Networking Fears Via The Media

Adelaide’s only daily newspaper, the Advertiser, has run a number of articles this week with an emphasis on the negative impact of social networking sites. Dec. 4 – Kids keep online threats secret from parents plus the Editorial. Dec. 5 – Parents warned against child Net risks What seemed to feature prominently was the apparent [...]

Edublog Awards – Voting Starts

I moaned about these awards last year but this year I thought that I’d shut up and nominate the sort of edublogs I think are deserving of recognition regardless of whether their readership is widespread or not. And because I nominated some close to home (i.e . Aussie and Kiwi blogs) I wasn’t too confident [...]

Widescreen Laptops Galore

One of the exciting initiatives we are implementing next year is getting laptops to all teachers so they can all plug in and use the ACTIVboards around the school, among other things. It will be really exciting to have a whole staff that can have that quality access to a laptop that the current IWB [...]

My Other Blog

I haven’t been spending much time writing on this blog lately because I’ve been writing end of year reports (what a way to suck the time out of your weekend/s) and I’ve been tending to the garden of my oft-neglected specialist blog, Activboarding (Four posts since November 27).  I’ve long given up on the notion [...]