Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Reputation

I was on yard duty on Tuesday and a Year 3 student came up to me. “I saw you on the internet last night.” I smiled. “That’s not hard. I have plenty of stuff on the internet. How did you find me?” “I typed in the school’s name and your name came up in Google.” [...]

Social Media & Professional Educator Associations – Enemies Or Friends?

Well, my talk at the CEASA Spotlight Seminar the other night seemed to go OK, although I’m not sure that I really addressed the question of how social media can be utilised by professional associations. A quick look at the CEASA website shows that even in this comparatively small state, there are over 50 associations [...]

The Love/Hate World Of Twitter

I’ve been asked to speak for about 20 minutes on Social Media For Educators for a Spotlight Seminar for CEASA, the ruling body for all of the education professional associations here in South Australia. The presentation promises to be more of a drive-by spray of information and ideas than an in-depth examination, but it has [...]

Travis Smith – Planning and Sustainable 1-1 Program

I was fortunate enough to attend a Learning Technologies sponsored day with Travis Smith from Expanding Learning Horizons today. Interestingly, I was the only person from a primary school and I was fortunate enough to run into an old colleague and Moodle innovator, Jason Plunkett from Mount Gambier High School. I took a bunch of [...]

Low Grade Graphical Eye Candy With Narcissistic Tendencies

Or put more simply, two Excel graphs that show where people who are reading this blog are from and where bloggers I’ve got in my Google Reader are from, in rough terms. Both should be taken with a substantial grain of salt. The first only measures visitors to my actual blog page – there isn’t [...]