Posted in blogging, conferences on Aug 30th, 2007 No Comments »
I attended tonight the first of a series of workshops Ivanoe Grammar is planning in conjunction with VITTA on the technology classroom. VITTA sees the role of information technology association as broadening, from IT teachers to supporting other professional networks, including this blogging event and they’re beginning to lead in that direction.
James Farmer from edublogs [...]
Posted in online safety on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
The Herald-Sun reported today that Tom Woods, a sixteen year old schoolboy from Melbourne, had cracked the Federal Government’s new $84m internet porn filter in about half an hour.
He then cracked a upgraded filter in forty minutes.
However, what interested me most wasn’t this boy’s prospective career path in the IT industry or his supporting actor [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets on Aug 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Walking to work this week, this retro footpath, all done in gorgeous blue chalk by some enterprising kids or their nostalgic mother. And, later in the same walk, some love-smitten year 10 had written chalk love messages to her bf on the footpath for a kilometre or so: ‘truly madly deeply’, ‘because you’re mine’, ‘i [...]
Posted in blogging, conferences on Aug 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
I was pleased, and even a little excited, to hear that Will Richardson has just arrived down-under to present some sessions at the popular Expanding Horizons Conference beginning this weekend in Lorne, Victoria.
I’m disappointed now that I didn’t make more of an effort to attend! Will’s blog is a favourite of mine, even though I [...]
Posted in blogging, web sites I like on Aug 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
How embarrassment to find, when I linked to Graham Wegner’s edublog site – Teaching Generation Z earlier tonight, to find that I was using exactly the same template as he was. His was prettier, especially with his gold logie in the blogroll! but it felt funny all the same so I’ve been fiddling around with [...]
Posted in higher ed on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Okay, so now I’m re-posting from old postings, but I was thinking about watching the space shuttle on my laptop computer again and how amazing that actually is.
I blogged just that sentiment a couple of years ago but it was on the old blog (I didn’t know about migrating posts over in those days) so [...]
