Online Professional Development Courses are effective
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Thu Sep 02 08:59:27 CST 2010. Permalink
Teachers who took online professional development courses improved their instruction and subject knowledge, as well as produced gains in student achievement,...
myfuture 2010 User Survey
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Wed Sep 01 15:26:17 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
e-book essentials for educators
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Tue Aug 31 08:46:21 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
The School Uniform debate
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Mon Aug 30 09:08:24 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Bringing the cloud into your LMS
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Thu Aug 26 11:12:47 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
IFLA WORLD REPORT 2010
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Tue Aug 24 09:27:44 CST 2010. Permalink
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and...
Book Week Australia celebrates 65 years
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Mon Aug 23 14:09:28 CST 2010. Permalink
Book Week is the longest running children’s festival in Australia, celebrating its 65th birthday in 2010. The date for Book Week 2010 this...
19 August, World Humanitarian Day
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Thu Aug 19 11:49:23 CST 2010. Permalink
Humanitarian Principles represent the foundation of humanitarian action. Key humanitarian principles include: Humanity: Human suffering must be addressed...
The device is less important than the principle
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Tue Aug 17 12:14:04 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Australia’s biggest generation heads for retirement
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Fri Aug 13 14:57:11 CST 2010. Permalink
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,...
I love my Twitter Daily
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Thu Aug 12 11:47:45 CST 2010. Permalink
If you take a look at my personalised twitter Daily what you are looking at is an aggregation of twitter and RSS feeds from people I follow. The...
Common Cartridge in action - some teachers perspectives
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Thu Jul 22 08:57:56 CST 2010. Permalink
A great video here providing some perspectives from teachers on the use of Common Cartridge and the application of it in Moodle. The video was taken at a...
iLust, iBan, iTry, iHope, iReview
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Wed Jun 30 12:49:31 CST 2010. Permalink
So this post can only be about one thing - the iPad. As a review, this isn’t really going to be hot off the press and out as soon as the device itself. ...
21st Century Learning and Cultural Change
Posted in Garry's Blog on Thu Apr 29 17:34:58 CST 2010. Permalink
At a recent presentation on 21st Century Learning spaces a discussion ensued about some great work being done in the Paramatta diocese. What was interesting...
2010 K-12 Horizon Report released today
Posted in Garry's Blog on Wed Apr 14 14:04:18 CST 2010. Permalink
The latest version of the K-12 Horizon report was released today. As a member of the Horizon Advisory Board I am thrilled to be associated with such an...
