Had a very interesting and informative evening with parents and some staff from my school exploring some of the issues and aspects of the internet from their kids’ point of view. It’s Safe Schools Week here in Australia and so it was good timing to do this event as part of the school’s series of [...]
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
One of the big criticisms about interactive whiteboards is that it looks too much like a traditional classroom tool and that if we are serious about making education relevant to today’s world, then digital reincarnations of yesterday’s tools aren’t going to cut it. Interestingly, the other alternative according to some advocates is 1:1 laptop computing [...]
I received a pleasant e-mail the other day from Anne Mason who’s the National Facilitator, Online communities from ICT PD Online who are organising the Time4 Online Conference over in New Zealand which started today! She wanted to check that a link from the Pre-Conference Preview area to my K12 Online Conference presentation from last [...]
I had an interesting day. I was ”in charge” as all other leadership was out of the school for the day. I had two school groups coming to look at our interactive whiteboard program and a vendor coming to look at our network regarding an upgrade to our switches and the setting up of a [...]
When Leigh popped up as my 50th friend on Twitter, I just had to send him the message “@leighblackall. Welcome to the twitterverse.” It’ll be interesting to read what he makes of it all and whether he reaches the same levels of enthusiasm (and criticism) as Alan Levine. I’ve been playing with twitter when the [...]
Over a Skype chat with Vicki Davis during the holidays, I agreed to help out on the Horizon wiki Project by helping out as a Sounding Board in the peer review of the project. My class became part of the official project and I became very unsure of how we were going to do justice [...]
There’s a quaint Australian expression “flat out like a lizard drinking” that people like to use when they are extremely busy and struggling to meet commitments. It’s a contradictory term and can just as easily be repurposed for satirical purposes when life is uncomplicated and slow. Apart from conjuring up images of a goanna sucking [...]
Darren Draper posted recently on the use of mobile phones in classrooms and called for more international data on mobile phone ownership amongst K- 12 school students. I gathered my data from our 4 middle school classes and sent it on. But if Darren is gain a good overall picture of this trend, he needs [...]
It’s starting to become a mantra of my mind – “How Do We Get All Teachers Online?” and I’ve been conscious of references that back up this point of view when I see them. Via James Farmer, is a great danah boyd article from the Knowledge Tree on social networking and its impact on students [...]
I’m composing this post sitting on a Virgin Blue flight back to Adelaide at 7.52 pm. The bloke in front of me has just reclined his seat back into my face pushing the complimentary copy of Virgin Blue Voyeur magazine (you’re got to wonder about Richard Branson sometimes) out of my hands. The little LCD [...]
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