Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
About to head to Tokyo for a couple of weeks to work at our sister school and learn as much as I can about Japanese culture, education and life as well as work with their English teachers and give some lectures on Australian student life. Not quite sure what to expect but very excited about [...]
Posted in wikis on Sep 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Just like the escalating arms race of the 1960s it seems that wiki engines are tripping over themselves to offer more and better features and plug-ins and out-do each other, which, unlike the days of the Cold War, can only be good for the planet.
I’m trying to keep my page (what wiki engine) as up [...]
Posted in blogging, e-learning, web 2.0 learning, wikis on Sep 19th, 2006 Comments Off
I hadn’t heard this term before, but it describes something of the impulse I was blogging about earlier, the desire to utilise the social and interactive web 2.0 technologies WITHIN the school’s own network. So creating or installing blogs, wikis and other tools for the use of the school community only.
This is an interesting post [...]
Posted in learning environments on Sep 11th, 2006 2 Comments »
My daughter rang today and said she’d spent the afternoon at uni. lying on the grass in the sunshine eating sushi and reading Adbusters.
I was glad to hear it; that’s what uni life should be about, not always rushing off campus to your part-time job, which she does all too often, but spending some [...]
Posted in blogging, learning environments on Sep 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Graham Wegner kindly pointed out this blog after my recent post about school architecture. think:lab is a blog that describes itself as ‘considering the future of learning and the environments that shape educational engagement.’ A pretty cool objective, and a blog. I happened to call in first on the day his son was born, which [...]
Posted in blogging, e-learning, wikis on Sep 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Will Richardson blogged this week about Open Academic, an idea to bring together some open source tools in an integrated educational context. Definitely worth watching how this develops. They say>>
OpenAcademic provides a suite of tools that allows you to manage all aspects of an institution’s learning environment. The OpenAcademic project is about options. We strive [...]
