Blog: Black Chat
Posted: 06:04 on the 9th of February 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...logy-world-forum-january-2010/
Tags: 
international trends
Following the first successful event in 2009, 72 national Ministers of Education, their retinues, and over 700 invited educators and technologists met over 2 days in London in January this year. Forum themes were regeneration and recovery; skills/learning ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 00:49 on the 2nd of February 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...nline-bookclubs-in-ozprojects/
Tags: OzProjects
OzProjects provides two Bookclubs for 10-19 year olds. Beware of Books is for students from 15-19 years. It is a place where you can discuss books, publish book reviews, and occasionally meet an author. From 15 -31 March Kim Miller will be answering q...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 22:18 on the 28th of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...10/01/29/blogging-competition/
Media release: JISC Conference 2010 blog competition launches JISC is putting the spotlight on the education community in a blog competition, with the chance to win a flip camera and inclusion in a JISC publication. As part of the JISC Conference 2010, J...
Blog: Tech-Ed Collisions
Posted: 02:32 on the 28th of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...our-education-or-recording-it/
In the first post related to this topic, I started to think about the impact that lifestreaming may be having on our lives. I was particularly interested in some of the psychological aspects of what might be occuring. For example, are we 'stepping out of...
Blog: Tech-Ed Collisions
Posted: 05:23 on the 27th of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...ing-your-life-or-recording-it/
Tags: Web 2.0social networkingTwitterprivacy
In this, the first of two posts on the subject I am going to examine the impact that 'lifestreaming' may be having on some of our experiences. I have been thinking a bit about this in relation to education for some time but a really interesting post on th...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 22:47 on the 26th of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...l-trends-in-ict-and-education/
Tags: technologies
My reaction when I first read Robert Hawkin's list on EduTech - a World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education was "haven't we already looked at these?" The list contains 10 items that have been on lists for a long time, so I guess what we need to ask ourselve...
Blog: Tech-Ed Collisions
Posted: 03:39 on the 25th of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/01/25/183/
Tags: IPv6
From the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU), comes this important message: 'ISOC-AU has been requested to help publicise the following announcement from the Number Resource Organisation, that the Internet has reached the point where less than 10% ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 00:33 on the 25th of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...-social-technographics-ladder/
Tags: online technologiessocial networking
Many thanks to Stephen Downes to pointing to this article in today's OLDaily. This is from a blog called Groundswell: How People with Social Technologies are Changing Everything. The diagram embedded below relates to analysing social technology behaviour...
Blog: KerryJ's blog
Posted: 03:33 on the 22nd of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...excited-over-a-virtual-laptop/
Tags: virtual worldsImmersiveLearningUnitImmersEDOpenSimvirtualworldsandeducation
In building our OpenSim estate on Reaction Grid, I needed a virtual laptop for a few of the activities there. As a government owned agency, Education.au needs to model good digital citizenship - so photographing one of my own laptops was out of the questi...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 22:55 on the 21st of January 2010 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...1/22/could-you-work-unplugged/
Tags: communication toolsonline technologiestechnologies
Hot on the heels of this week's Kaiser Family Foundation report that reveals just how much time young Americans are spending using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, comes a provocative appeal: Unplug Education. No Computers I...
