Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:29 on the 1st of September 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...lopment-courses-are-effective/
Tags: 
professional development
Teachers who took online professional development courses improved their instruction and subject knowledge, as well as produced gains in student achievement, says a new study by e-Learning for Educators, a 10-state consortium funded by the U.S. Department ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 05:56 on the 1st of September 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/.../01/myfuture-2010-user-survey/
Tags: Education Services Australia
Complete the myfuture 2010 user survey to go in the draw for a chance to win a weekly prize of a Kindle Reader. The myfuture annual survey seeks user feedback to ensure the provision of services and website information layout meets the needs of all users. ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:16 on the 30th of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...book-essentials-for-educators/
Tags: Education Services Australia
A recent online forum that I led for over a week has brought me to the conclusion that the most essential thing for educators and educational librarians is to get some experience in using e-book readers and reading e-books. The cause needs some champions i...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:38 on the 29th of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...30/the-schoool-uniform-debate/
Tags: Australian education
Every now and again the issue of school uniforms crops up. This morning the Sydney Morning Herald claims that Australian students are "growing up in a society where the dominant and long-held view is that school uniforms instil discipline, a sense of sel...
Blog: Tech-Ed Collisions
Posted: 01:42 on the 26th of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...nging-the-cloud-into-your-lms/
Tags: standards
The Web can be a wonderful place, filled with an un-estimable number of great tools and content that have tremendous teaching and learning potential.  At the same time though, there is so much material on it that is completely inappropriate to have ac...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:57 on the 23rd of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/.../08/24/ifla-world-report-2010/
Tags: Australian education
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession....
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 04:39 on the 23rd of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...australia-celebrates-65-years/
Tags: literacy
Book Week is the longest running children's festival in Australia, celebrating its 65th birthday in 2010. The date for Book Week 2010 this year is August 21st - 27th.Each year, many schools and public libraries from all over Australia spend a...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 02:19 on the 19th of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...august-world-humanitarian-day/
Tags: Education Services Australia
Humanitarian Principles represent the foundation of humanitarian action. Key humanitarian principles include: Humanity: Human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure res...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 02:44 on the 17th of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...-important-than-the-principle/
Tags: Education Services Australia
In my news items today - reports of a North American university giving iPads away to its students, and another giving students a choose between a free iPhone or iPod Touch. Recently Reuters commented "It's the old razors and blades thing. You give aw...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 05:27 on the 13th of August 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...neration-heads-for-retirement/
Tags: Australian education
The Baby Boomers are categorised as those born between 1946  and 1964 - that means the first of them basically turn 65 next year. Many of them, like me, are on the cusp of retirement. Currently they constitute 36% of the workforce, and, from my own ex...
