Monthly Archive for April, 2007

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Off To See Jimmy

Published on April 12, 2007 in Information Literacy, Internet and Web 2.0. 1 Comment

I know I said that he wasn’t worth $300 of my money when I can watch so much of him on the web already. But when Al Upton e-mailed a deal “Half price to see the expensive man” I got in quick and got the MYLU team tickets to his Adelaide seminar. We’ve been planning [...]

Competing For Attention

Published on April 9, 2007 in Blogging. 9 Comments

I know that it borders on sacrilege but I don’t really read David Warlick that much these days. But when cleaning out some of my Bloglines feeds today, I did take notice of this post where David wrote about the importance of attention in the blogging world. He has this to say: To get things [...]

Shaun The Sheep

Published on April 9, 2007 in Information Literacy and Personal Reflections. 3 Comments

Even though illness has wreaked havoc with the adults in my household over the Easter long weekend, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to kick back and relax with my sons. Friday and Monday have included watching a bit of ABC Kids and our newest favourite TV show, Shaun The Sheep. I hardly ever consciously watch television [...]

Personalising The Web – Using StartPages

Published on April 5, 2007 in Resources. 1 Comment

I was asked by Terry Freedman last year during one of the K-12 Online Conference Fireside Chats about contributing to the next edition of “Coming Of Age.” While a bit daunted by the high level of contributions by other edtech luminaries, Terry convinced me by pointing out that he had no contributors from Australia. I [...]

Open Educators

Published on April 4, 2007 in Future Directions and Resources. 1 Comment

Ever since I delved into educational blogging, a strong supporter of my efforts has been Jo McLeay, a secondary English teacher from Melbourne. She has a great name for her blog, “The Open Classroom.” It’s a great title because it evokes images of transparency and free dialogue. I’m pretty sure that’s what Jo strives for [...]

Fang @ CEGSA

Published on April 3, 2007 in Web 2.0. 0 Comments

Here we go _ live blogging with Mike Seyfang on “What 2 Can Do For You?” He’s just polled the audience on who knows about Web 2.0 and got a good response. There were less hands for the poll on who was enthusiastic about Web 2.0, who was luke warm. and who thinks it’s all [...]

Twittering

Published on April 1, 2007 in Internet and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

I’m trying out twitter – just to see how it works and what the fuss is about. The finding and linking of friends is interesting – there’s no obvious way to search onsite for potential links. I started with Mike Seyfang and then went through his friends, then  found EdTech Talk, and then another and [...]