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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)

Dealing with those multiple personas

December 22, 2007 – 10:28 am

I have just read a posting by Pru Mitchell that was a response to my earlier posting about multiple personas. Pru is concerned with managing multiple edna personas. She, like many of us, has at least two edna logins that perform different functions. They are based on different email addresses. But with the advent of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, networking, community building, social networking, edna Groups, me.edu.au | Comments (1)

Why reading a blog changes your behaviour/thinking

December 22, 2007 – 10:02 am

One of the things that I can say about blogs is that I read many more of them now than I did 12 months ago. There are a number of blogs that I monitor via an RSS reader. I have one running on my computer at work, and another on my computer at home. I […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, informal learning, incidental learning, networking, social networking, web 2.0 | Comments (2)

How many personas do you have?

December 19, 2007 – 7:07 am

It seems to me that one of the strange features of the new online social networking world is that we are constantly re-inventing ourselves. I have already spent quite a bit of time setting “myself” up on edna’s latest venture me.edu at http://me.edu.au. You can find me at http://me.edu.au/p/ksmith
I wasn’t very inventive with my identity/name- […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, social networking, web 2.0, me.edu.au, myedna | Comments (2)