Tomaz Lasic's Blog (8)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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