Do your students know who you are and what motivates you? Do you know who your students are and what motivates them? And would sharing a bit of yourselves make you a more effective educator and them more effective learners?
These questions are behind a new project being fired up by a passionate educator named Lauren […]
Janet Hawtin, a colleague of mine here at education.au wears many hats. She is passionate about free, open source software, is a talented graphic designer and contributes to many forums on topics related to education and ICTs.
She is a modest women, but I convinced her to give me a photo opp in honour of […]
Flickr, the online photo sharing site owned by Yahoo! is going to be running what I think is an amazing online project on 8 August 2008.
During the 24-hour period that is 8 August 2008 wherever you are, they are inviting Flickr users to submit 1 photo about their day to a special Flickr group. Flickr […]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a 60-second video that demonstrates one of the major strengths of vritual worlds -the sense of immersion and shared experience.
Last night edna workshop participants from Canada, New Zealand and the US got the chance to jam out and create music together and then share some […]
I’ve posted a long-form post on the before, during and aftermath of the day’s production on my personal learning journey blog.
Here is the executive summary:
When considering how and what to share with people not at the event, use a combination of tried and true and the shiny and new.
Prioritise what you want to achieve based […]
As my fellow Twitterati can attest, the Twitter service seems to be going down fairly frequently as of late. If you use Twitter for a conference back channel or have come to rely on it for collaboration – this can have a big impact on your professional life.
Another free tool that aggregated as many of […]
If you have a Flickr account and want to empower other educators to create low-hassle mashups, consider contributing to the public Flickr group “What I love about teaching and learning”.
The photos shared in the group can include metaphorical images or drawings, shots of you and your colleagues (provided you have their permission of course!), […]
In the course of catching up on reading and email after 6 days unplugged, I came across an article in the Metaverse Journal about an upcoming forum on the use of Web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds in the corporate sector being put on by the Future Exploration Network.
The topic ”Business value from blogs and wikis […]
