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How does your Blog stand up?

July 16, 2008 – 2:59 pm

I am really interested in what makes a good blog and it has been in my thoughts off and on for most of this year.
More than that I am also interested in what functions a blog can have in a teacher’s professional development, in their professional portfolio, or their professional learning environment.
You will see some […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, personal learning environments, bloggingcorner08 | Comments (2)

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, blogs, 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, blogs, bloggingcorner08 | Comments (1)

Growing up with Google

April 30, 2008 – 7:48 pm

An article by Diana Oblinger subtitled what it means to education defines the Net Generation as students who were born after 1982 (that makes them 25+) - students who have never known life without the internet, and have integrated internet access into everything they do.
My elder daughter and her husband moved to Abu Dhabi with […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Net Generation, Net Gen, web 2.0 | Comments (4)

The changing dynamics of learning

January 11, 2008 – 8:37 am

One of the nice things about being back at work at this time of the year in Australia, before schools, Unis and TAFEs resume, is that I get to look a bit more closely at some of the information coming across my desk, read those incoming blogs a bit more assiduously, and even follow up some […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, informal learning, professional learning, learning environments, networking, community building, social networking, future schooling, me.edu.au | Comments (0)

Feedback coming in about me.edu.au

December 27, 2007 – 1:11 pm

Australian educators playing around with the beta release of http://me.edu.au are impressed with its capabilities and potential. By Christmas Eve over 1500 people had begun setting up their pages. Nick Lothian, one of the team behind the project has advised in his educationau blog of a couple of extra capabilities including the ability to […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, community development, social networking, me.edu.au | Comments (3)

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, informal learning, incidental learning, networking, blogs, social networking, web 2.0 | Comments (2)

Web conferencing and professional development

December 4, 2007 – 12:12 pm

This morning I joined in a Japanese class where a teacher in an Adelaide suburban school was taking a class of 6 students in rural West coast school. My role was mentor/helper. We were using an instance of Live Classroom in an edna Sandpit Group. Live Classroom is a web-conferencing plug-in to Moodle which we […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, professional development, professional learning, community building, web 2.0, edna Groups, edna10, Live Classroom, web conferencing | Comments (0)

Podcasts for educators

October 3, 2007 – 1:59 pm

edna’s e-learning insights host, Kerry Johnson, interviews Dr. Megan Poore, of the Australian National University’s Academic Skills and Learning Centre which recently won an award for SkillSoup, an innovative podcasting programme designed to meet the needs of students of all levels. The interview gives valuable insights into what Megan has learnt through setting up this […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in online technologies, Australian education, podcasting | Comments (0)

Social Networking et al resources

September 21, 2007 – 10:58 am

Have you come across Common Craft Productions? They produce video materials on web 2.0 tools. Today I found a couple of new videos I hadn’t seen before. They do seem to have the knack of explaining/describing the complex in really simple terms.
Worth looking at

Social Networking in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
Social Bookmarking in Plain English - focus on […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, wiki, networking, social networking, web 2.0, RSS | Comments (1)