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 truly ubiquitous make no distinction between online friends and offline friends because they know that their online […]
3 November 2008 – 10:39 am
Owners of edna Groups and creators of OzProjects projects now have free access to the web conferencing tool Live Classroom and the edna team is offering free PD sessions.
Interested? Just complete an 8-question survey letting us know when and how you’d like to receive your training.
The survey is located in the Live Classroom and Voice […]
6 October 2008 – 11:12 pm
This Friday 10 October, Australian online social networkers will be going blue for Beyond Blue Day, to raise awareness of anxiety and depression disorders as part of Beyond Blue’s ADA awareness month.
To get involved, you can change the image you use on your favorite online sites — either by creating your own or getting one […]
8 September 2008 – 11:26 am
Just finished watching an outstanding presentation by a project-based learning team from Parramatta Marist Brothers’ college.
The 4-week project focused on local environmental issues and the group I saw did outstanding research on several environmental issues.
The teachers involved set up a ning group - http://greenup2145.ning.com and then the students got to work.
Their research was used to […]
18 August 2008 – 11:17 am
In preparation for next week’s seminar “Mind Over Matter” being hosted in Sydney by education.au, I thought I’d take CoveritLive out for another test drive. Feel free to contribute or ignore this blog post…
Close your virtual world, click the x on your personal learning environment. Step away from your keyboard. Log off from your computer and shut it down. Put your smart phone in a drawer. Turn off the IWB, television, radio, MP3/MP4 player, close the door to the computer lab and let’s go for a walk.
Are your […]
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 […]
If you missed out on the online conferences yesterday and missed out on Tuesday the 24th, you can now access archives of the Live Classroom sessions in the online conference group - http://sandpit.edna.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=1247
For the time being, you need to be registered with edna services in order to access the archives page. There are plans to […]
Yesterday was the first run of edna workshops conducted online using Live Classroom during the day and Second Life in the evening.
It was a long day for those who signed up for the full menu. Breakfast with Kerrie Smith and Gemma Mayfield at 730am Adelaide Time covered the me.edu.au service and discussed social networking. I […]
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 […]
