Are The Bullies Winning?

Isn’t it often the case that as soon as you become attuned to an issue that references to it begin to pop up everywhere. Having last night lauded the Australian Commonwealth Government’s NetAlert site what arrives in my email but the latest NetAlert Newsletter.
The headline article is that Cyberbullying is one the rise. The article [...]

It’s Not Only The Kids Who Get Bullied

Given as an educational blogger it is always in the back of the mind to ensure that the environments we enable our students are as safe as possible it was extremely disturbing to hear from multiple sources of the experiences of Kathy Sierra.
Reading through the Comments attached to the post, (they are unsurprisingly numerous), it [...]

Others Are Joining 2.0

Now that I am back in the classroom full on it has been timely to launch into podcasting with this year’s crew. Fortunately I have a couple of students in my class this year that I have had previously so it has not been too big a learning curve for the students as I have [...]

Spreading the Data

Finally a reason to dip into online spreadsheets has manifested itself for my class and I. A number of my students are enrolled in a state based Reading Challenge where students are encouraged to read novels taken from a recommended list to qualify for recognition certificates.
To provide some additional incentive I thought it might be [...]

Do I Know What I’m Doing?

Cruising around looking for something completely different, (how often does this happen?), I came across a link to a series of posts on Blogging For Beginners. Compiled by Darren Rowse it is on a site designed to assist bloggers to use their blog to make money. Sounds a lot like those folk who make money [...]

Feeding Frenzy

Though I set up a Google Reader account before I went on my recent travels and though I actually accessed it on a couple of occasions during the trip I really didn’t do too much reading of the entries. As a result it is only now that I am catching up on all of the [...]

What’s Been Happening?

Well after three weeks away travelling through Cambodia and Vietnam it has been back to earth with a thud. Arriving back in Oz last Sunday at 7:30am from Ho Chi Minh City it was back to work on Monday. Oh dear, what a contrast, since I had been away my class and a colleague’s have [...]

Wither The Diarist

Haven’t been able to blog here for a few days but as I have a connection via an open wireless connection here in Hanoi I checked the news from home and found this article from the Age about the demise of the diarist. Seeing as how I am enjoying writing about our travels of the [...]