Clay‘s punctuating comment on my recent Parable 2.0 post caught Leigh‘s eye and he posted the following to the TALO list: Below is a comment to a blog post made by an Australian teacher recently. In the post, he and the commenters are expressing frustration at trying to get their colleagues using blogs and wikis [...]
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Been playing with edna’s new service for Aussie educators, me.edu.au. Kerrie Smith alerted me to its launch the other week and although I am an infrequent user of educationau online services, I wanted to have a closer look. Basically, it’s social networking for teachers and it doesn’t seem restricted to only Australians as you can [...]
This is a fictional post – any resemblance to real educators or this blog post in particular, are entirely coincidental. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a bright-eyed idealist ICT (edtech) coordinator discovered Web 2.0. It was love at first sight and he then started his own blog. One thing led to another [...]
A great tradition here in South Australia is the Teachers Golf Days held at the end of each term. I played again today at the challenging but very enjoyable course at the Vines, Happy Valley in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. The course was very dry and the dam alongside the 2nd hole was totally [...]
I wandered around the oval today on recess time duty and noticed how two years of drought has ravaged the grass surface. There are only sporadic spots of green amongst a mass of dried yellow and as the games of soccer and cricket are played by the students dressed in navy, light blue or white, [...]
I’ve been really pleased with the way our upper primary laptop program has been going over the last month. We purchased 20 x $800 Acers that have been excellent performers and handling the wireless network extremely well in the classroom. They shipped to us with Vista so once our tech prised that OS off and [...]
My lifestyle doesn’t lend itself to much podcast listening but I’ve decided that an effort to lose some excess kilos is in order. I see jogging as a form of torture and have my knees cringing in fear whenever I up the pace on my bicycle so the old fashioned brisk walk is the way [...]
With just over a week of school left for this year, I thought that now would be a good opportunity to officially declare the wiki collaboration between my Year 5/6 class and Doug Noon‘s sixth graders open. Now, it’s never ever been closed to anyone on the web but this is an official invitation to [...]
Tomorrow morning, I will be connecting in to a Centra session (think proprietary online conferencing tool) to see if my school can be a contender for a 3 year research project that has “What should 21st century learning look like?” as its central question. The irony of such a question struck me in such a [...]
I really like reading Dan Meyer. I first latched onto his blog early this year via Bud Hunt and for me, Dan epitomises the philosophy of an Open Educator with his forthright manner and willingness to share his classroom practice and very useful resources. Not everyone appreciates his style and he can rub some readers [...]
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