Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 06:29 on the 16th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...actors-influencing-the-future/
A US Report prepared in 2007 by ETS (Educational Testing Service) called America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future identified 3 powerful forces producing polarisation in American society. They are divergent skill distributions ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 02:48 on the 15th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...tion-things-will-be-different/
Tags: 
online technologiesAustralian educationlearning environmentsweb 2.0future schoolingdigital education revolution
A discussion here yesterday with colleagues at education.au got me thinking about how different things might be once you can assume that every Year 9-12 secondary student has access to a computer all the time while at school. One of our group commented th...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 05:02 on the 14th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...unite-for-human-rights-may-15/
Tags: communication toolsblogsHoward Rheingold
Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to hel...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 01:39 on the 14th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...ultaneous-storytime-australia/
Tags: OzProjectsonline projects
National Simultaneous Storytime 2008 will take place on Wednesday 21 May at 11:00am throughout Australia. The children's book, Arthur, written by Amanda Graham and illustrated by Donna Gynell, will be read simultaneously at participating organisations. The...
Blog: Jen Millea @ education.au
Posted: 23:39 on the 12th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...-indigenous-learning-outcomes/
Tags: indigenousearly childhoodnational curriculumplaybased learning
The current Australian Government has made a commitment to reducing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous learning outcomes. Indigenous education is not an area of expertise of mine (disclaimer) but it does seem to me that the issue is bigger than ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 05:03 on the 12th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...gital-world-go-online-june-18/
Tags: professional developmentweb conferencingednaworkshops08
edna, me, and the digital world goes online with free online workshops Workshops: Wed. 18 June 2008 - times are AEST 8-9 am - social networking with me.edu.au 10-11 am - Finding resources for embedding in Multimedia 1-2 pm - Digital Literacies 4-5 pm ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 00:57 on the 12th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/.../who-am-i-my-digital-identity/
Tags: digital footprinte-portfolioeportfoliometadata
Stephen Downes presented a very engaging talk at the recent Eifel ePortfolio conference in Montreal. His presentation called My Digital Identity is well worth listening to. Stephen describes it as a "scattered presentation that looks at authentication and...
Blog: KerryJ's blog
Posted: 01:50 on the 11th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...ive-white-board-make-your-own/
Tags: interactive whiteboard
Oh the things you come across on Sunday mornings! Using a Wii remote, a tripod, bluetooth adaptor and home-made LED pens, the videos on this blog post will show you how to make your own interactive whiteboard for around $100. http://coolcatteacher.blogsp...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 08:05 on the 9th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...ution-australia-wide-symposia/
A Digital Education revolution Realising the possibilities - managing the realities The Australian Council for Educational Research and education.au supported by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), are pre...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 06:29 on the 9th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/.../2008/05/09/moodle-moot-au-08/
Tags: Australian educationmoodle
Today I got notification that my presentation for the Moodle Moot in Brisbane 2-3 October has been accepted. So hopefully I will be meeting up with some of my "virtual friends" there. Currently the organisers are still looking for presenters. The keynote...
