Science Is E-E-E-E-Easy: Another Online Presentation

One of the professional associations that I still support even though I am no longer full time in the classroom, is the local Science Teachers Association of Victoria, (STAV). I find that for most conferences they offer, (and in the past they have offered quite a few), I can cobble together something of interest. This [...]

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. [...]

Coast To Coast Comparisons

Well what a week last week was. First off was the Perth experience at the 2007 World Conference on Science and Technology Education. As reported earlier the keynote sessions in particular were stellar. Many of the other option sessions were also interesting, (a couple were a little more special focus than I had anticipated). It [...]

Demos: Their Space Revealed

Via the venerable Kerrie Smith from education.au comes a link to a must read report from the UK Demos organisation, the ‘the think tank for everyday democracy‘. Some 81 pages in length, the report draws on a range of date collections including focus groups, diaries, polls of parents and interviews with more than 60 students [...]

Flickring Tutorials Some More

Aren’t holidays fun, my wife is in Sydney for the day, it is rainy and cold down here in Geelong so what better things to do than write some more Getting Started notes. As more students will be wanting to use images in their Passion Projects next term, I needed to get things straight as [...]

Am I, (Are You), Hung Up On Technology?

This week in my fave paper, The Age, Graeme Philipson wrote a thought provoking article about technology addiction titled All Hung Up On Technology. The premise of the article is that many of us are more motivated by Technology Envy Syndrome (TES) than looking at how we are making the technology serve out needs. It [...]

Boxed In

Following some queries from a couple of people, (and being reminded by seeing it on Graham’s Gen Z site) I have finally activated My Box.net site. Even better I have uploaded some support notes that I have used at recent Professional Development presentations. These include

Getting Started With Edublogs
Getting Started With GlobalTeacher, (Victorian Education Department schools [...]

Pity ‘Bout The SerendiPity

Oh don’t you love it when you click the Publish button to go off to do a bit of a feed read and realize that you should have paused on that post a little longer. Actually this time it was a little bit after I pressed the Publish button that I realised that because I [...]

The Kiwis Are In Time4Online Too

Via Paul Harrington comes a link to some more great work from the redoubtable Kiwi Allanah King just across the ditch, (that spot of ocean between we Aussies and NZ). This time Allanah has produced a great video relating her experiences with her children in blogging and podcasting as well as skyping with Paul and [...]

Playing With The Boundaries, K12 Online Again

After the huge success of last year’s K-12 Online conference it is not surprising to see an even bigger event planned for this year. Congratulations to Wes, Darren, Sheryl and Lani for getting together once again and do all of the spadework behind the scenes. Once again everyone with an interest in Web 2.0 is [...]