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A teacher connects - true story

This time a guest post from my blog, written by a colleague, Veronica Emery.

When Tomaz asked me to write this blog entry I thought what I always think when he suggests that I, ‘get on… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on September 15, 2009 at 9:37pm — No Comments

Blogging

We want to set up class blogs at school and I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good site we can use? Continue

Added by Alli Grant on August 25, 2009 at 9:49am — 1 Comment

Been asked about doing a bit of animation with one of the teachers and his classes. Had a look at the commercial stuff and not really looking to pay for software just yet. I remember from one of our SLICT sessions someone talking about free software... anyone help out here would like to give it a go and if proves successful can look into other software. Continue

Added by Paul Robert Carroll on May 12, 2009 at 11:30pm — 3 Comments

Just do it

This Thursday I had the privilege of hearing one of my dearest and friendliest, uber-connected locals Sue Waters giving a keynote on PLN at the EDNA workshop. Great stuff - she managed to bamboo… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on May 10, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

Best when human

Getting busy at the Education.au ICT in Learning Symposium

This is an attempt to organise many thoughts after spending an amazing weekend with a number of passionate and wise ‘ed-tech’ people at and after the… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on May 5, 2009 at 11:13am — No Comments

Edupassion.com introduction : online grade report.

Hi, I'm Nicolas Zozol, founder of Edupassion.com and former science Teacher in Paris and Boston. Edupassion.com provides an online grade report for Teachers, Students, Administration members and soon to parents.

The main interest of thi… Continue

Added by Nicolas Zozol on April 30, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

ITSC 09

Blitto's ITSC Blog

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Added by Rod Blitvich on April 21, 2009 at 6:55pm — No Comments

For those who missed our first catch-up this year...

Just a quick note to all EVICTS members who couldn't make it to our first gathering in 2009 on Wednesday, 8 April... About 20 people attended Twizza and had a very relaxing and quite productive time too. While the theme of the meet was 'introduction to Twitter', we ended up chatting about all kinds of things (as you do towards the end of term). For a fuller account of the afternoon please visit http://human.edublogs.org/20… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on April 11, 2009 at 10:10pm — No Comments

For Moodlers and those curious...

Hi all Last Saturday I had the honour of appearing on Classroom 2.0 Live show on the topic "Using Moodle in a classroom". Apart from the show starting at 1am (got to bed at around 3am...), it was a blast and I think all of us present got an awful lot out of it. If you want to see the recording of the show, chat transcripts and/or audio, please visit http://live.classroom20.com/1/po… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on April 1, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

The pencil metaphor & Twitter invite

A great way to explain (resistance to) change by Lindy McKeown - link here Which pencil (part) are you? How do you sharpen them? By the way... I got this via a friend over Twitter. If you are not on Twitter please consider joining. It is absolutely stunning how easy it is to stay in touch, learn, share, find things and let the human filter (rather than a computer one) do the work for you and with you. If you are wondering 'w… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on March 18, 2009 at 5:30am — 3 Comments

Great post by Miguel Guhlin regarding the employment of mobile devices in education

This blog post comes to via Miguel Guhlin. He composed a post regarding the use of mobile devices by administrators. The post is a worthy read and sets out a series of five straightforward guidelines for administrators and educators when utilising mobile devices within education. The five… Continue

Added by John Larkin on February 22, 2009 at 8:45am — 2 Comments

Twitter saving lives

The images, sounds and stories from the massive bushfires in Victoria and their horrible toll have been crossing the globe over the last week. It has truly been a tragedy and it continues to rage. There are dozens of stories of missing the loved ones, survival, reunions, hopes, uncertainty coming through the ‘conventional’ mass media. But driving to work this morning I heard a powerful story on the loca… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on February 12, 2009 at 2:31pm — No Comments

Google's free embedded books

A quick search of Google books today revealed a great selection of books suitable for classroom use across the entire K-12 range. Many have limited previews but I refined my search to isolate only those books offering 'Full View'. My preliminary collection which currently contains 184 books - mainly juvenile fiction and a few suited to WA Courses of Study - is available through my Google library and includes boo… Continue

Added by Jean on February 1, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Sunrise 09

Before going back to school tomorrow, here are a few of my professional aims for the year.
* Continue to try, question, reflect on how digital technology (DT) can enhance and/or threaten the purpose of education (not schooling!) as it see it: to… Continue

Added by Tomaz Lasic on January 28, 2009 at 10:43pm — 1 Comment

Getting started ~ putting knowledge into practice

Following the excellent Weaving Technology conference that was held in Wagga last October I composed a few ideas regarding the thought or process or getting started with technology in the classroom. I thought i would share these ideas again here as a cross post from the Weaving Technology ning. I also blogged about these ideas in more detail on my blog ~ Watershed. Essentially, when starting out with tech… Continue

Added by John Larkin on December 21, 2008 at 7:21am — No Comments