I feel pretty tired now – travelling even on a jaunt from one state to another is draining – possibly because I so rarely do this. But if I want to capture my thoughts from today’s participation at the “Live To Learn, Learn To Blog” event at Ivanhoe Grammar here in Melbourne, I’d better do [...]
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Sitting here in the plush surroundings of Ivanhoe Grammar School ready to hear the man behind edublogs, James Farmer. I’m actually sitting next to Warrick Wynne, one of the nodes on my network and had a great talk before with my blogging colleague, Jo McLeay who I caught up with the last time (first time!) [...]
Some interesting statistics from my inflight magazine that I think I’ll present to my sessions this afternoon. Forrester Research conducted their “Forrester Consumer Technology Adoption Survey” where they found that 11 % of online Australians frequent Social Networking sites (compared to 9 % in the US). 41 % of online Aust’ns use instant messaging and [...]
As I prepare for my own “Blogging For Professional Learning” presentation/workshop for my brief soiree to Melbourne on Thursday, it’s great to see the creative juices flowing elsewhere on my network. As the numbers for my two hour sessions at the Live to learn, learn to blog event are on the smaller side, I’ve been [...]
Konrad Glogowski has written one of the best posts of the year for any edublogger interested in the concept of inquiry learning or student initiated learning. Like Barbara Ganley, Konrad’s relatively infrequent posts are skillfully written with insightful detail that shows an open educator at their best. I was really taken by the parallel lines [...]
I hate dressing up. I inwardly groan at the prospect of special events like Book Week Parades and the staff “peer pressure” to join in. This year I thought I had the solution to my costumophobia as today’s Parade loomed large on the theme of Outer Space when I remembered an old favourite book of [...]
Late this week I posted this at the Classroom 2.0 site looking for some willing classrooms elsewhere in the world keen to work on a small scale global project. Through my blog network I had already privately arranged a classroom for my own class but once my colleagues heard my idea, they agreed it would [...]
After talking about World Vision and our middle school students possible involvement in the 40 Hour Famine or the Make Poverty History, I found the following YouTube video embedded in Rocky Jensen’s blog. Tracing it back to YouTube, I found it was part of a series of videos compiled by Adam of Stir, a youth [...]
Today was a pretty good day. A project that I’ve been coordinating (hence my job title) came to fruition in a meaningful and successful way. We held a Staff Professional Learning day with the theme of “Quality Teaching And eLearning” – a grass roots event that helped to hone in on our Interactive Whiteboard program [...]
One of the mindshifts that is necessary for me to gain the most out of blogging is the willingness to embrace criticism. Having my ideas, my planning and my implementation of how to do my job open to be contradicted, disputed, queried and requiring justification by others is where the most personal professional growth will [...]
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