Posted in politics, videos, web 2.0 learning on Sep 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Google are saying that the new Google Australian Federal Election site is a first for them; actually creating a page that centralises links to lots of information about a forthcoming event, rather than just aggregating other news data as they do with pages such as their News Australia site. The site integrates neatly with the [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets, wikis on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
This is one of those tools that grows in usefulness the more you use it. It’s basically a mini wiki that runs on your computer and I use it grab little snippets of daily information which I can tag or archive.
I began using it just to grab notes on telephone conversations and I liked it [...]
Posted in education-news, politics on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Rather than watching the profession sidelined yet again on a major educational debate, VIT might be advocating for teacher representation on major inquiries and reviews such as the current history debate. From the AGE today:
History teachers claim the Federal Government has shut them out of the development of a national Australian history curriculum for high [...]
Posted in teacher-bashing on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
You’ve gotta hand it to the Victorian Institute of Teaching, the compulsory union you’ve got when you haven’t got a compulsory union, although unions represent their constituents, not over-regulate them.
When it was first established I was hopeful it would represent the professional voice of teachers in Victoria: advocate for teachers, put the teacher perspective in [...]
Posted in software, tools and gadgets on Sep 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been working recently with some other teachers on the software tools to be loaded on student notebook computers for next year and in that process I was reminded again of Open Office, the multi-platform, multilingual office suite produced as part of an open-source project.
I was reading an article earlier this week about all [...]
Posted in blogging on Sep 1st, 2007 No Comments »
I had the good fortune on Thursday to finally catch up and say hello to a couple of teacher bloggers who I read regularly and meet in real life two people I’ve only connected up with online until now.
Graham Wegner blogs out of a smallish primary school in Adelaide and his emphasis was on [...]
