Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Can We Really Make A Difference?

Published on July 31, 2008 in Information Literacy, Middle Schooling and Problem Based Learning. 5 Comments

This writing of this post has nearly been as drawn as the unit of work that I want to write about. But it needs to be documented as sharing what I actually do in my classroom is an important role of this blog. So, here goes. I’m starting to feel a little more confident about [...]

notimeforblogging

Published on July 27, 2008 in Personal Reflections. 4 Comments

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CEGSA – Learning Is A Conversation

Published on July 17, 2008 in Personal Reflections. 5 Comments

Our annual CEGSA conference is underway and being hosted at the fabulous ASMS (Australian School of Mathematics and Science) here in Adelaide. For a small scale conference, the line up of keynoters and sessions is pretty good. Here’s what unfolded today. Opening Keynote – Martin Westwell, Director, Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st [...]

WTf2f?

Published on July 16, 2008 in Personal Reflections. 7 Comments

It kind of bugs me when I read posts like this and I have concerns about the thinking behind posts like this and this. But before anyone thinks I am taking potshots at these worthy and well meaning folks, think about my point of view here… … where if face to face is such a [...]

Kickstarting A PLN

Published on July 14, 2008 in Personal Reflections. 26 Comments

Like Chris Betcher (but to a potentially much smaller audience), I am planning one of my presentations for our annual CEGSA conference. My (somewhat pretentious) title is “Connected Global Professional Learning” and I have 45 minutes to convince some South Australian educators that the best place to learn in a professional context these days is [...]

Yo Bro, I’m Talkin’ Auzzie!

Published on July 12, 2008 in Personal Reflections. 1 Comment

This post by Cindy Barnesley ties in nicely with this recent news article about the Americanisation of everyday Australian English spoken by young people today. Cindy writes: Accents and idiomatic expressions have a powerful appeal and no less so than in Australia, which has its own particular linguistic “flavour”. The article points out that our [...]

ALEA08 – IWB And Literacy Presentation

Published on July 9, 2008 in Personal Reflections. 4 Comments

I was hoping to get this up last night so that attendees at my presentation at ALEA08 could access this post as a form of online handout. Edublogs was playing up so that foiled my plans somewhat. So, if you were at my session and have checked back now to see if I was true [...]