Learning and Technology World Forum, January 2010
Posted in Black Chat on Tue Feb 09 16:34:38 CST 2010. Permalink
Following the first successful event in 2009, 72 national Ministers of Education, their retinues, and over 700 invited educators and technologists met over 2...
Online Bookclubs in OzProjects
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Tue Feb 02 11:19:01 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Blogging competition
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Fri Jan 29 08:48:07 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Are you living your education or recording it?
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Thu Jan 28 13:02:22 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Are you living your life or recording it?
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Wed Jan 27 15:53:08 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
10 Global Trends in ICT and Education
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Wed Jan 27 09:17:56 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Only 10% of IPV4 addresses remain unallocated!
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Mon Jan 25 14:09:32 CST 2010. Permalink
From the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU), comes this important message: ‘ISOC-AU has been requested to help publicise the following announcement...
Where are you on the social technographics ladder?
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Mon Jan 25 11:03:27 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Excited over a virtual laptop
Posted in KerryJ's Blog on Fri Jan 22 14:03:05 CST 2010. Permalink
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...
Could you work Unplugged?
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Fri Jan 22 09:25:54 CST 2010. Permalink
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,...
Kindling along: an update of my Kindle experiences
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Thu Jan 21 13:34:41 CST 2010. Permalink
Although I still read paper versions of books, I am well and truly hooked on my Kindle, and I think it has huge potential for Australian education as does any...
Mobile phones and primary school students
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Wed Jan 20 10:51:18 CST 2010. Permalink
Silicon Alley Insider has produced an interesting chart about the growth in the ownership of mobile phones by US 6-11 year olds, and I thought it would be...
Tweak the tweet: a lesson in standards development
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Wed Jan 20 09:36:44 CST 2010. Permalink
This should be interesting for all those interested in standards development. Standards development for me is all about consensus building (to state the...
Sustainable vs disruptive technologies
Posted in Kerrie's Blog on Tue Jan 19 14:10:16 CST 2010. Permalink
I was reading this article this morning: Opinion: Virtual schools are a critical piece of education’s future and it struck me that perhaps I didn’t...
Twitter stats - do they influence you?
Posted in Jerry's Blog on Tue Jan 19 12:19:57 CST 2010. Permalink
As an occasional user of Twitter every now and then I get a message in my email letting me know that someone is following me. If it’s someone I know (ie...
