Posted in education-news, learning environments on Jul 17th, 2006 Comments Off
Kenneth Davidson in The AGE today raises some doubts on the scuttle towards public-private partnerships as governments look for $$ to bolster educational infrastructure stating:
Successive Liberal governments from Bolte to Thompson could afford to finance the building of 12 government schools a year to meet the demands of a growing population when the taxation base [...]
Posted in blogging on Jul 16th, 2006 Comments Off
Anne Davis is an educator at Georgia State University who has a great web log called EduBLog Insights with some wonderful resources including links to lots of blog projects in schools that she’s been working on.
If you wanted to show teachers lots of examples of student blogging in action you’d be hard to find [...]
Posted in wikis on Jul 16th, 2006 2 Comments »
I spent a few hours last week really having a close look at the Wetpaint wiki software, which is quite different to anythhing I’d seen from Jotspot or PbWiki, the two I’ve liked so far. It took me a while to get used to the page navigation and how it create pages and sub-pages on [...]
Posted in blogging on Jul 16th, 2006 Comments Off
So it’s one month with edublogs and wordpress powered blogging, after five years or more blogging with blogger, and I’m convinced that this is a more powerful and flexible tool. I like the idea of permanent pages you can add, the search works, the categories of links and postings are fantastic and the templates are [...]
Posted in blogging on Jul 16th, 2006 2 Comments »
American principal hooked on blogging and all that, and her enthusiastic post about new technologies and what they might do for students. After a WIll Richardson PD session she’s hooked on blogs, wikis and RSS and what it mght do for learning.
I hope we raise smart, curious kids who want to know what’s available, and [...]
Posted in education-news on Jul 15th, 2006 5 Comments »
It’s interesting to see a leading teacher union argue that teachers don’t shape outcomes, and aren’t important in determining student achievement. Regardless of what you think about so called merit schemes, you can’t really have it both ways; that teachers are the critical linchipin of successful schools and should be paid accordingly AND they aren’t [...]
