R So (it’s that) Simple

There are lots of metaphors for explaining RSS out there. The one I use goes a little like this…
“…… a useful analogy is to think of the way that mail services have developed. For a long time you had to go to the Post Office to check if you had mail. More often than not [...]

Casting the Pod Over ANZAC

ANZAC Day is the most important day of remembrance on the Australian calendar. It is marked by ceremonies all across the country. The day before ANZAC Day this week, one of senior unit students came to me to ask if he could borrow an iPod to take with him to one of the local dawn [...]

I’m Going Google Over The Spreadsheet

It has finally happened, Google has included a graphing function in their Google Docs Spreadsheet and it is pretty cool indeed. The spreadsheet has always been pretty neat to use but now with the this latest function things have really stepped up a notch. One thing that is quite attractive for me as a teacher [...]

A Video Conversion

Having passed on to the oz-teachers list details of the now much referenced Pay Attention video from Darren Draper there was an immediate query from my colleague Anne Baird as the TeacherTube version was playing up for her. Anne noted that because YouTube is banned in our school, she uses KeepVid and the associated flv [...]

Blame The Blog?

Having lamented the lack of breadth in the debate about online environments the other night on the local ABC it is nice to see another side of the blogging story being addressed. In the latest edition of the online Techlearning ezine, Jeff Utecht, (supported by some excellent tips from Vicki Davis) , has pondered on [...]

Differences Of Opinion?

Tonight our national broadcaster, the ABC had a panel-audience program titled “Growing Up In The Digital Age“  As quoted from the program website, the aim was to focus on
“Generation Y,…… the first generation to have grown up from scratch with a mouse in one hand and a mobile in the other. So how is the [...]

The “Sphere” Is Shrinking

At the same time as lots of Web 2.0 aps are being “mashed” and morphed, so too are many being stripped back to the bare minimum. Some time back we reported on barewiki, (which seems to have morphed into OttoWiki), which is a stripped back wiki. (Another interesting variant is Wiki on a Stick which [...]

Have We Been Nominated? Drats Nope

A little while back I reflected on how you know things have become mainstream when they are the focus of competition and marketing. The blogosphere is no exception and now blogs have become so omnipresent that even politicians are espousing the use of blogs and other Web 2.0 to develop public policy.
Now via Lucy Gray [...]

Passionate Frustration, (and we haven’t even started projecting yet)

I’m frustrated and I shouldn’t be. Having broadcast far and wide, (it makes you wonder why you spruik), that we are going to do these new wonderful passion projects, (plus also having cajoled another colleague to get her extension group into blogs and wikis), and things all of a sudden fall apart. Timetables had been [...]

Casting the Word

Now that my current class have finally gotten a first podcast program up and in the can as it were we now only need to wait on the school technician to get the school server back in action. Last year I was using this server to house the podcast episodes we did in 2006 and [...]