Monthly Archive for June, 2010

The Three Chain Road

Google Maps Street View now becomes Google Beaten Track View as I discovered that the Googlemobile has been documenting the Mid-North of South Australia where I grew up. My brother is still on the family farm and it is amazing to be able to virtually drive down the dirt roads out of Wirrabara and head [...]

How Do We Capitalise On This?

I don’t why I haven’t subscribed to Mark Pesce earlier, considering Will Richardson has linked to many of his posts before in the past.  I’ve heard him speak too, at the education.au event that featured Jimmy Wales. But this latest post (no short read by any stretch) is one of the best I’ve read this [...]

Do Schools Really Buy This Stuff?

Being the ICT coordinator means that I get a heap of brochures, fax printoffs and emails for this product or another lobbing in my in box. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve put a copy of the latest HDGuard solution into the recycling box. But I’m always surprised what different vendors think that [...]

An Overview Of The Current State Of Play In The EdTech World

It feels like ages since I’ve blogged and even longer since I’ve blogged anything worthwhile. Of course, the longer I leave writing here, the more the self doubt sets in and makes me wonder if I have anything worthy of pushing out to say. So, the counteractive cure to that is put up a grandiose [...]