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Blogging Corner Carnival #2

February 25, 2009 – 7:50 am

At the beginning of March the edna Group Blogging Corner will be posting its 2nd carnival.
If you are a blogger and would like to draw people’s attention to your blog, pick a posting you have made recently and submit it to the carnival at http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_6037.html
The categories in the Carnival are:
* Challenges and Events
* Classroom Blogs
* […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, bloggingcorner09 | Comments (0)

Blogging Corner Carnival

January 12, 2009 – 7:00 am

Alison Hall and I will be managing Blogging Corner in edna Groups again this year.
One activity we have already set up is a Blogging Corner Carnival.
The first Carnival will run on February […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, bloggingcorner09 | Comments (0)

The long tail scrapheap

November 12, 2008 – 9:05 am

In the light of yesterday’s post about the long tail of the internet and Graham Wegner’s (Open Educator) response pointing me to some related sites, I thought I’d investigate the idea that some blogs have fallen by the wayside.
The GapingVoid cartoon displaying below was a bit predictive in January 2006 wasn’t it?

The cartoonist Hugh MacLeod […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies | Comments (4)

Setting Challenges

August 2, 2008 – 2:25 pm

Teachers, just like their students, need activities and challenges. They need the goal posts to shift just slightly so that they try something new.
That’s what I had in mind when, over on Blogging Corner in edna Groups, I set up the Blogging Corner Challenge 08 today. It will give participants in Blogging Corner a chance […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, edna Groups, bloggingcorner08 | Comments (1)

Bloggers Unite for Human Rights, May 15

May 14, 2008 – 2:32 pm

Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference; from raising awareness for […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, Howard Rheingold | Comments (0)

Blogging Corner

May 9, 2008 – 3:52 pm

Yesterday I created a new edna group for blogging educators.
Blogging Corner is a place for bloggers, would-be bloggers, and blogging mentors. Whether you are just starting out on your blogging journey, are some distance along the track, or have loads of experience, we hope there will be something here for you.
Content and activities […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, bloggingcorner08 | Comments (1)

Better Blogging

May 7, 2008 – 3:49 pm

One of my aims all this year has been to become a better blogger.
I feel I have learnt a few lessons so far but have quite a way to go.
Here are some of the things I feel I’ve learnt:

choose topics that others want to know about
don’t make your postings too long
use a bit of white […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, professional learning, community building, comment08, bloggingcorner08 | Comments (4)

Struggling with cyber safety

April 1, 2008 – 4:22 pm

Parents and education systems alike share anxiety about protecting children online.
A recent UK report that is the result of a six-month study by child psychologist Dr Tanya Byron tries to tread a delicate line between tighter regulation and better coordinated parental education. Obviously the education systems will have to match the duty of care that […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, internet safety, Australian education, learning environments | Comments (0)

Why blog? or don’t you?

February 6, 2008 – 9:00 am

To blog or not to blog is the question the current issue that edna’s e-learning insights is focussing on. The producer, Kerry Johnson, reports that the result of a recent Blogging Vox Pop was a rich cross-section of view points from educators across sectors and nation wide. Listeners submitted their responses by email or by […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, learning environments, social networking | Comments (1)

How your digital footprint is personalised

January 8, 2008 – 9:28 am

I’m still thinking my way through the Pew/Internet research Digital Footprints (pdf). The report discusses how the advent of Web2.0 has changed the nature of personal information. In the past most of the searchable information related to web pages, published papers, and email postings. Now our public comments on blogs and discussion groups are archived, […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, web 2.0, me.edu.au, myedna, digital footprint | Comments (0)