This is the third post in a series. You may wish to read the first and second posts concerned with what a teacher and faculty can do in preparation for 1:1 too. 10 things ‘a school’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms: 1. Funding– expectations of a champagne experience from a beer budget tend to fizzle when the reality […]
10 things ‘a faculty’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms: 1. Support the school’s agenda – help to make good ideas work but also shape them with positive input followed by action. HTs have a special role here in leading their faculty positively and realistically. Be collaborative and then complete honest reflection […]
This will be the first in a series of posts designed to help our whole school community gain the full benefit of the rollout of laptops. This year there will be hundreds of laptops flooding into our school and wireless connectivity. We have been preparing for quite a while now and will continue to do so. The […]
Twitter in 15 minutes View more presentations from Sarah Evans.
Recently I’ve been chatting with lots of teachers new to Twitter or keen to experience the service. I’ve sent them links that list ways to find teachers and professionals to follow on Twitter. Here’s an alphabetical list of 10 Australian educators that I get great value from on Twitter: Chris Betcher Dean Groom Elaine Talbert Kelli McGraw […]
Stilgherrian is often outrageously irreverent, and also shares his intellectual interests, on Twitter. He sent out this link, which I suspect will result in me losing many hours of my life to James Burke and posted this at his blog. Here’s a taste of episode 1 of Burke’s 1978 series, Connections. However, it his Knowedge […]
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2364455&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] I really enjoyed this ‘beat poem’ discovered at Stephen Downes’ blog. more about “Storm: A Poem“, posted with vodpod More of Tim Minchin can be found here and here.
This 3 minute talk by Renny Gleeson gets to the heart of the matter. ‘Shared narratives’ are powerful and being hyperconnected can allow this to happen across, and despite, physical spaces. However, there is a potential cost and I’m sure we are guilty as charged by Renny. I remember my years, in the mid-90s, travelling […]
This IBM commercial makes me think about our still very disconnected classrooms. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2351574&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Connected?“, posted with vodpod
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2349996&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “WWW in Plain English“, posted with vodpod
Twitter Handbook for Teachers Thanks Tomaz.
My colleague, Peter Johnson, officially retires on Monday 27th April after 40 years of serving our community and working to help the youth of NSW. Peter’s support and friendship has been unwavering during the three years we have worked together at Dapto High School. I have learnt much from him and remember, on first meeting Peter, being […]
This is my PowerPoint from today’s video conference, THINKING GLOBALLY, DELIVERING LOCALLY, organised by the Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre and the NSW DET: [slideshare id=1201151&doc=pln-090326051926-phpapp02] Thanks to Anne-Maree Moore for her friendly guidance and warm support. I look forward to John Larkin’s presentation tomorrow.
Last year I started asking around, on Twitter, for the origin of the acronyms that I was reading so much about. ‘Personal Learning Networks’ (PLNs) and ‘Personal Learning Environments’ (PLEs) were so often used by the educators that I was following that it was surprising no-one really could source them. Recently, I have had more […]
This did make me laugh. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2250765&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Twouble with Twitters“, posted with vodpod
NYU Adjunct Professor of New Media, Clay Shirky talking on Brian Lehrer Live about how the internet is changing society. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2216046&w=425&h=350&fv=docId%3D-7146708668148684044%26playerMode%3Dsimple%26hl%3Den] more about “Clay Shirky“, posted with vodpod
The glacial pace of change in Education is a theme constantly discussed by colleagues I admire but mostly I hear the opposite, that change is too relentless, too challenging. Systems seem to have some inbuilt, organic way of slowing change – preserving the status quo – and even when the paradigm shift is acknowledged, key players seem unable to generate the […]
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2213098&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Lost Generation“, posted with vodpod
[slideshare id=1135334&doc=pln-090312035338-phpapp02] My presentation for principals today didn’t go as smoothly as one would hope. We had poor internet access and streaming videos and pages loading properly was problematic. However, my PLN was great and tweeted hellos using the hashtag #BridgeSt. Hopefully some delegates came away enthused with the potential of these tools.
[slideshare id=733816&doc=top1002008-1226159775914793-8] Thought this may assist some of the participants in my presentation tomorrow.
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[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2160905&w=425&h=350&fv=vu%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Fembed%2FEvanWilliams_2009-embed_high.flv%26su%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fimages.ted.com%2Fimages%2Fted%2Ftedindex%2Fembed-posters%2FEvanWilliams-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg%26vw%3D432%26vh%3D240%26ap%3D0%26ti%3D473] more about "Twitter: Evan Williams at TED", posted with vodpod
Get your twitter mosaic here.
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