Monthly Archive for January, 2011

Let’s Roll

Published on January 30, 2011 in Middle Schooling. 0 Comments

Tomorrow is the start of the new school year here in South Australia. I’m starting my ninth year at my school and this year will be the main teacher for a class of thirty Year Sixes and Sevens – kids who start the year as 11 and 12 year olds. Composite classes like this are [...]

Digital Literacy Lesson Potential In Qwiki

Published on January 25, 2011 in Internet and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

Via ReadWriteWeb, news of a service called Qwiki that “combines speech-to-text and assembled multi-media to create little slideshows based on Wikipedia entries”. Although like Animoto, all of the heavy lifting is done for you, this tool has some potential in the classroom. There’s all sorts of talk around the need for primary school students to [...]

Drifting Nowhere In Particular

Published on January 24, 2011 in Personal Reflections. 2 Comments

I’ve felt the urge to blog here over the past few months slipping away. It’s not that I’m not online – I am, probably excessively so – but I’ve been drifting through other people’s blogs, following little side alleys and having no particular purpose in mind. I can’t blame being busy, as Brian Crosby can. [...]

We Don’t Want The Users In Control, Do We?

Published on January 14, 2011 in Future Directions and Internet. 0 Comments

Thanks again, to Stephen Downes, who points to a Guardian article on the future where this passage confirms what I was talking about in the last post: The open web created by idealist geeks, hippies and academics, who believed in the free and generative flow of knowledge, is being overrun by a web that is [...]

The Internet Inc.

Published on January 6, 2011 in Internet. 0 Comments

Following a tangential thought after reading this Stephen Downes’ post in OLDaily. I’m not much of a futurist but I certainly wonder about the impact of the corporatised  internet within the next decade on people like myself who have found a niche on the open web. The uncertainty surrounding delicious is certainly a indication that [...]