http://blogs.educationau.edu.au//index.html Blogs at Education.AU Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:40:11 CST RSS and Atom in Action - PlanetTool 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 and preparing learners for a global society; all focussing on education and technology. The bias was towards early [...] international trends Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/gblack/2010/02/09/learning-and-technology-world-forum-january-2010/ Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:34:38 CST Greg Black 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 questions in a special Beware of Books forum. Kim is the author of [...] Educationau OzProjects http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/02/02/online-bookclubs-in-ozprojects/ Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:19:01 CST Kerrie Smith 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, JISC is asking teachers, learners and researchers to share their experiences of technology around the [...] Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/29/blogging-competition/ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:48:07 CST Kerrie Smith 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 the now’ and simply becoming observers of our [...] Twitter Educationau Web 2.0 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/01/28/are-you-living-your-education-or-recording-it/ Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:02:22 CST Jerry Leeson 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 the lifestream blog on the psychology [...] social networking Twitter privacy Educationau Web 2.0 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/01/27/are-you-living-your-life-or-recording-it/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:53:08 CST Jerry Leeson 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 ourselves is how strongly is this [...] technologies Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/27/10-global-trends-in-ict-and-education/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:17:56 CST Kerrie Smith 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% of IPv4 remain unallocated. Please circulate this announcement as widely as possible.’ ‘ISOC-AU has taken a leading role nationally and internationally in raising awareness [...] IPv6 Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/01/25/183/ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:09:32 CST Jerry Leeson 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. The post is titled Social Technographics: Conversationalists get onto the ladder. The categories shown in the diagram overlap. If [...] social networking Educationau online technologies http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/25/where-are-you-on-the-social-technographics-ladder/ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:03:27 CST Kerrie Smith 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 question due to issues of Intellectual Property. So I contacted several [...] OpenSim ImmersiveLearningUnit virtualworldsandeducation Educationau ImmersED virtual worlds http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/kjohnson/2010/01/22/excited-over-a-virtual-laptop/ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:03:05 CST KerryJ 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 In Schools. A national US survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing [...] communication tools technologies Educationau online technologies http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/22/could-you-work-unplugged/ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:25:54 CST Kerrie Smith 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 other e-book reader/tablet. The Kindle I have is the 6″ version: very portable and great for reading fiction on. Did you see that this week Amazon [...] Educationau e-book http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/21/kindling-along-an-update-of-my-kindle-experiences/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:34:41 CST Kerrie Smith 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 interesting to at least see what the level of ownership might be by Australian students. Your assistance in collecting statistics would be wonderful. If you have trouble viewing or [...] mobile technologies Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/20/mobil-phones-and-primary-school-students/ Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:51:18 CST Kerrie Smith This should be interesting for all those interested in standards development. Standards development for me is all about consensus building (to state the bleeding obvious) but the way consensus (or at least more or less general agreement) is reached on many of our standards can take months or years even. A justification for [...] Twitter standards metadata Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/01/20/tweak-the-tweet-a-lesson-in-standards-development/ Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:36:44 CST Jerry Leeson 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 understand the difference between sustainable and disruptive technologies. Perhaps, like me, you need some clarification. Among other things the article says “Technological innovations might be categorized along a continuum from sustaining to [...] technologies Educationau online technologies http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2010/01/19/sustainable-vs-disruptive-technologies/ Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:10:16 CST Kerrie Smith 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 have an existing relationship) I will generally follow them with out much further thought - after all it is someone that I already [...] social networking Twitter Educationau http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/01/19/twitter-stats-do-they-influence-you/ Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:19:57 CST Jerry Leeson