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HIT REFRESH: Leading and Blogging

Posted by | Published on November 27, 2009

Welcome to our blogging workshop today for the NSW English Teachers’ Association annual conference.  Before we commence, lets gather some data using a great online tool […] 

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ETA Conference: Web 2.0 Workshop

Posted by | Published on November 29, 2008

Colleagues, Far too often at conference ‘workshops’ are merely lectures in masquerade…not today! Now that you have listened to my brief presentation, attempting to define […] 

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ETA Conference: Blogs and Blogging Workshop

Posted by | Published on November 28, 2008

Welcome to this ‘Blogs and Blogging’ ETA workshop. We have 30 computers but with so many particpants you may have to share a computer, which […] 

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A Twitter love song

Posted by | Published on October 19, 2008

Sue Waters mentioned a ‘Twitter Love Song’ in her comment about my Twitter post. The opening lyrics are just perfectly poetic, considering that my inclination is […] 

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Twitter

Posted by | Published on October 18, 2008

Since Mark Pesce spoke about Twitter at an education.au conference earlier in the year, I have been embarrassingly evangelical about this microblogging service. Quite simply, […] 

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