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Monthly Archives: November 2008

OECD survey and VET in Australia report

November 30, 2008 – 3:51 pm

The OECD are looking for your views and experiences with diversity in your classrooms. The online survey asks all teachers and educators about their preparation for diversity in the classroom, their biggest challenges, and what are the most effective strategies. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes and will be open until December 5 2008. OECD, […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

World Aids Day, 1 December

November 29, 2008 – 8:39 am

UNESCO offices from Almaty to Yaoundé are organizing a wide range of activities, building on the theme of ‘leadership’ and the Organization’s longstanding work on HIV and AIDS.
UNESCO says that education contributes toward the knowledge and personal skills essential for the prevention of HIV, and the mitigation of the impacts caused by AIDS. Education […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau, Australian education, Australian Schools Calendar | Comments (1)

Launch of inspirED

November 28, 2008 – 3:41 pm

InspirED is a collaborative initiative between Education.au and the Australian, State and Territory school education jurisdictions to deliver quarterly email newsletters, one in each school term, to teachers, school leaders and education administrators around the use of ICT in teaching and learning.
InspirED arose out of an observed opportunity for information sharing among Australia’s education jurisdictions […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, Australian education, research | Comments (0)

Finding time for Social Networking

November 28, 2008 – 9:11 am

A byline for edna for a long time has been “saving time for busy teachers”. When you mention creating a variation to their normal routine, often the teachers in your audience will assume a sort of haunted look, unable to imagine where the time to learn and then utilise the new tool or service is […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau, communication tools, community building, social networking | Comments (0)

What is becoming a teacher really like?

November 27, 2008 – 11:00 am

A recently released UK report has indicated that systems are probably not paying enough attention to what happens to a new teacher starting out on their career.
The report has identified 7 dimensions of EPL - early professional learning - that are important to new teachers developing their identities in the profession. Those in the job […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau, Australian education, beginning teachers | Comments (0)

Why Teachers should blog

November 26, 2008 – 11:00 am

A posting by Stephen Downes headed Blogging Academe sent me off to Hugh McGuire’s Why Academics Should Blog.
It is similar to a question we posed in Blogging Corner on edna Groups a few months back.
If you had to try to persuade others to blog what would you say? What does blogging do for you or […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

Rupert Murdoch speaks about education

November 25, 2008 – 11:00 am

Here are some links to some of the things Rupert Murdoch has said recently about Australian education and our national future.
Education is a global currency
An article in the Australian newspaper in which he says that business companies need to take a more active part in working with government to ensure that the schools are giving […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau, Australian education, innovation, future schooling, changes in education | Comments (3)

Adding an RSS feed with JavaScript

November 24, 2008 – 8:03 am

Last week, in my post about edna tools, I talked about edna’s Feed2JS tool.
Use it if you want to embed an RSS feed into your blog or website and you don’t have an RSS gadget that you can use. If you look back at my post, you will see now a perfect illustration of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

The importance of 7

November 21, 2008 – 2:55 pm

It is interesting to reflect on the number 7: 7 days of the week, the 7 Deadly Sins, the 7 Wonders of the ancient world, and now the 7 skills today’s students desperately need.
Tony Wagner addressed the US State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) this week, and told the audience that their focus on testing […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, Australian education, future schooling | Comments (0)

edna tools

November 19, 2008 – 12:06 pm

Here are some edna tools that you may not be aware of.
The edna Search can be embedded in any web page or blog.
The standard search

Search

edna
all

The distributed search includes not only the edna database but a also a number of trusted repositories.

1. Search for

All the words
Any of the words
The phrase

100 results
150 results
200 results

2. Search […]

By Kerrie Smith | Posted in Educationau | Comments (1)