Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 03:31 on the 3rd of July 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...9/07/03/using-games-to-engage/
In my experience of teaching history, Ancient Egypt was always a hit. I once found a choose-your-own-adventure style of web site, where visitors could explore a newly found tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Looking back now, it was very text based, although...
Blog: KerryJ's blog
Posted: 22:54 on the 1st of July 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...tralia-lets-get-to-the-source/
Tags: 
Second Lifeinternet safetyvirtual worldsedauILU
Several people in the past few weeks have asked me about whether or not virtual worlds not classified by ACMA and/or Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games (MMOs, MMPORGs, MMOPRGs) like World of Warcraft would be banned under the new filtering regi...
Blog: Tech-Ed Collisions
Posted: 19:52 on the 29th of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...tter-than-the-mayor-of-london/
Tags: accessibility
The London Tube Map is an iconic work of design. Every day of the year it probably helps many thousands of visitors to London and some locals as well navigate their way around this incredible and essential piece of transport infrastructure. The map itsel...
Blog: Tech-Ed Collisions
Posted: 06:06 on the 26th of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...-asset-is-its-biggest-problem/
Tags: e-portfolio
ePortfolio 2009 has run its course and participants from all over the world will start heading home hopefully filled with ideas and enthusiasm for moving the eportfolio agenda forward. During the conference Dr. Helen Barrett mentioned that reflection was ...
Blog: Jen Millea @ education.au
Posted: 01:51 on the 26th of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...he-random-proximity-of-tweets/
Tags: social networkingTwitterSICTAS
Twitter, one of the world's fastest growing social networking/microblogging services, gets some good press and some bad press. It's a timewaster, pointless, full of mundane 140 character tweets about what people had for breakfast, say some. Personally I lo...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:01 on the 25th of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...tal-diversity-call-for-papers/
The Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC) managed by the Australian Council for Computers in Education is the most important conference for Australian teachers who use computers in their teaching and learning, and isn't that all of us these d...
Blog: KerryJ's blog
Posted: 09:36 on the 25th of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...nments-what-are-they-good-for/
Tags: virtual worldsedauILUImmersiveLearningUnit
131 million accounts and 12.1 million unique visits per month make Habbo Hotel the largest immersive environment on the planet. It doesn't have the best graphics. It doesn't allow for a large degree of avatar customisation or control over the environment. ...
Blog: Jen Millea @ education.au
Posted: 04:47 on the 23rd of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...cloud-computing-and-education/
Cloud computing is another buzz word spilling into the education sector and IT press. What does it mean for a teacher, for education, for a school? In simple terms cloud computing enables you to access software applications, hardware, data and computer p...
Blog: KerryJ's blog
Posted: 01:04 on the 23rd of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...son/2009/06/23/dis-connection/
Tags: online eventscollaborationvirtual worlds
Why do so many employers and educators cling to the belief that daily commutes to homogeneous environments with dress codes and dictated hardware and software are a prerequisite for productive work and effective learning? People for whom technology is tru...
Blog: Black Chat
Posted: 07:19 on the 22nd of June 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...22/learning-from-notschoolnet/
After 10 years of successful experience getting disaffected young people to regain self confidence and engage in learning, the notschool.net team see three crucial underpinnings for their work. Simply it is providing the environment and support for young p...
