Senator Conroy’s recent announcement about the censorship of the internet in Australia has disturbed and perturbed Australians who reflect intelligently on the nature of our civil society and the freedoms we enjoy. The benignly titled press release, ‘Measures to improve safety of the internet for families’ has been released in the week before christmas in […]
“As students realise that the tools for living are the same for learning, they will naturally expand the range of things they can do.” Read Download Genesis
It really would be worth taking some time to explore the nominated blogs, wikis, tweeps, nings and educators nominated for Eddies this year. I intend to look at all of them during the holidays and reorganise my Google Reader to reflect my current interests. After reading Miguel Guhlin’s post it got me thinking about what is […]
Opportunities for professional growth and renewal are plentiful, if you work as an educator but rarely does one have the kind of opening to a new world that has presented itself recently. Carsten Søndergaard and I are exchanging our jobs for a term. Carsten is a Pædagogisk Inspektor at Viborg Katedralskole, establish in 1060, in, of […]
Time to vote in the 2009 Edublog Awards for your favourite bloggers, tweeple and online colleagues. I have been fortunate enough to receive nominations in two categories, Best Individual Tweeter and Best Teacher Blog. Thanks to Dean Groom, Kelli McGraw, Judy O’Connell and Tomaz Lasic for their nominations this year. I appreciate your enthusiasm, humour, […]
This is a great, professional looking slideshare presentation from Mark Woolley found at Heyjudeonline. [slideshare id=2347712&doc=pln-key-091026052444-phpapp02]
The Edublog Awards are now in their 6th year. Bloggers provide me with so much inspiration and so many new ideas that reflecting on the year for these awards is very pleasant indeed. It is also very difficult to choose just one blogger or tweep (apologies to colleagues who have missed out from me this year and I […]
Like Wordle, Tweetcloud is a great representation of what’s been on my tweeting mind.
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 called Survey Monkey (only for conference delegates please). A key issue: why do you want to blog? What is your purpose? What do you want to achieve? How can you connect? Kelli […]
[slideshare id=2545065&doc=valuesineducation-091120082504-phpapp01] I highly recommend you subscribe to Steve Wheeler’s blog and follow him on twitter.