Some things old and familiar, some things unexpected and new; the edublogs awards always have something of interest.
If you’re up to your neck writing reports, correcting exams, sitting in planning meetings or reviewing your course, then bookmark the site and revisit it over the summer holidays and see how some educators are embracing the blogging [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in blogging on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Looking forward next week to breaking my own cyber-safe advice and meeting two people I’ve only ever connected up with online.
Graham Wegner, from South Australia, writer of Teaching Generation Z blog, and Jo McLeay of The Open Classroom blog from good ol’ Melbourne are both presenting at the VITTA session below called Live to Learn, [...]
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