Another Day Another Reason To Blog

Via Judy, (and before that Janet, don’t you just love connectivity), comes mention that this Friday 31st of August has been designated the 3rd annual Blog Day. BlogDay initiator Israeli Nir Ofir points out that
“…… the majority of blog Readers read a very small number of top blogs?”
and rightly asks
“Is this social media?”
Nir [...]

Today Two Years Is tout d’abord

Sometimes you can get ahead of yourself and think that “Hey I’m a bit out there.” Thankfully just as quickly you get the hose down that shows just where you really are on the continuum.
Earlier today I ran myself through an Online Survey to see where I am on our education departments Continuum [...]

Vale Newsprint?

It might seem that I have spent at least half of the weekend scouring the newspaper but alas such has not been the case. I have however had the opportunity to once again mesh my broadsheet browsing with my online activity. In a deliciously ironic happenstance given the theme of the story, I read via [...]

The Blush Of Power, Oh The Futility?

Well it had to happen, the much vaunted Australian Federal Government supplied family internet filter has failed its first test. According to the Age, a sixteen year old former cyber-bullying victim has taken 30 minutes to crack the filter. He has managed to keep all the toolbars etc associated with the filter such that to [...]

Speed Kills

Having previously bemoaned the slowness of the blogging service attached to our Education Department’s blogging portal Globalstudent it was so great to be able to head into the school computer lab today to find that almost miraculously the logjam had been broken wide open. Before I sound like I am carping can I just place [...]

NSBA Report

Following on from the Age article referred to in my last post comes news via Andy Carvin that in the US
“…… the National School Boards Association has released a new report on student use of social media tools. The report contains a multitude of findings that have already started an online debate about the role [...]

Life At 15, It’s The Age

My local paper The Age has been running a fascinating series this week focusing on the life of fifteen years olds. Whilst the print version has made for a really interesting read, the online version of the paper has really shown up the opening gap between it and the paper format. This online version contains [...]

One Web Day

Via Andy Carvin comes a reminder that is never too late to start planning for OneWebDay. With the avowed aim
“…… to create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life.”
the whole notion makes for an interesting adjunct to another recent thought provoking from Jeff Utecht on refocusing on what really matters. [...]

Give Them Their Head And I Get The Ache

It’s Thursday again and part one of the weekly bun fight that is lab time for the senior students at our school. On Thursday and Friday each week we split the five senior grades into four groups and another teacher, (a different one for each group), and I work with them around different things ICT. [...]

Learn the ccLearn way

Via Mr Stacey comes some interesting news about an educational extension of Creative Commons called ccLearn. ccLearn
“…… is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER)”
Now I must profess here to having only a very basic understanding of what all this means in practice. As [...]