Posted in podcasting on Nov 27th, 2006 No Comments »
It’s new, it’s fresh, it’s short! It’s Wozcast 14.
I just uploaded my most recent podcast. Just less than half an hour on: Day 3 of the VITTA (Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association) Conference at Flemington Racecourse on Nov 22, 2006, including talk about SENSIS, SENSEI, safe searching, online learning platform ‘Study Wiz’, the [...]
Posted in e-learning on Nov 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Spent a day this week at the VITTA 2006 Conference at Flemington Racecourse; imagination creativity thinking. Always worth a look but like most conferences always inconsistent in the sessions, VITTA is a bit caught between its old I.T. teachers association role, and its new sexier incarnation as technolog across the curriculum.
I can feel a [...]
Posted in curriculum, learning on Nov 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
It’s hard enough sometimes to get through the day without having to plumb the depths of the future.
That’s the thing sometimes isn’t it? One of the reasons that the big picture and visionary is so often hijacked by the immediate and the now. Because, if we don’t plan today to move to web 2.0 tools [...]
Posted in blogging, podcasting, web 2.0 learning, wikis on Nov 15th, 2006 No Comments »
It seemed to take ages to arrive, but Will Richardson’s book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts & Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms finally arrived in the school library yesterday and it looks good, a simple introduction to some of the key tools and just the kind of thing you’d want to leave around the staff room [...]
Posted in blogging, e-learning, web 2.0 learning, wikis on Nov 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Almost always agree with what Will Richardson has to say in his influential blog weblogg-ed (hey, the library rang me yesterday and told me his book that I’d ordered had just arrived) but his comment yesterday on schools trying to re-create web 2.0 learning WITHIN the school network environment was a bit hard. He quotes [...]
Posted in education-news, teaching strategies, tools and gadgets on Nov 10th, 2006 No Comments »
I know it’s a bit sad that kids in the classroom with computers is news, but at least it’s finally a good news story about technology in the classroom from the AGE today>>
VICTORIA’S Education Department has launched a pilot project – an Australian first – in which a group of year 8 students at [...]
