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Do social networks have a positive impact on education?

January 17, 2008 – 9:23 am

This is the topic of the Economist.com Oxford style debate currently taking place. It is the third of a series of debates conducted at http://www.economist.com/debate/ on education and connected issues. The first two issues: Technology in Education, and University Recruiting, are no longer active but the third on Social Networking has just begun. The debate moderator […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, Australian education, professional development, professional learning, learning environments, networking, social networking, me.edu.au, PLE, personal learning environments | Comments (3)

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, communication tools, teaching and learning, informal learning, professional learning, learning environments, networking, social networking, future schooling, me.edu.au | Comments (0)

oz-teachers icon to become a teenager

January 10, 2008 – 7:51 am

In August 1995 Lindy McKeown, on behalf of the oz-TeacherNet Project at Queensland University of Technology, announced a new service for Australian teachers - an email discussion list to be called oz-teachers.
The oz-teachers list has been established in response to numerous requests for a national list to collect Australian teachers in one ‘place’ and to […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, informal learning, community development, networking, social networking, collaboration, oz-teachers | Comments (4)

Where are we going in 2008 - edna workshops

January 4, 2008 – 9:06 am

This morning I was pointed by an article in the OLDaily (Stephen Downes) to Gary Woodill’s blog titled Ten Learning Technologies to Transform Training in 2008. Gary lists the technologies that he will attempt to make the focus of his 2008 workshops and webinars. The first that he lists is Technologies of collaboration. Gary thinks […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, me.edu.au, edna workshops, collaboration, ednaworkshops08 | Comments (1)

New Year reflections

January 3, 2008 – 10:03 am

The New Year always seems to lend itself to casting your mind back over the past 12 months and thinking about what you’ve achieved and what you need to do better.
What I’ve been thinking about is how my online life has changed, how much more time I’m making for it, and reflecting on what perhaps […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, virtual environments, social networking, me.edu.au | Comments (0)

Making Online Communities work

December 29, 2007 – 10:28 am

This is a topic I’ve already written about and given workshops on. But all my writings and presentations so far have really been based on the assumption that the community has been set up by someone who has a purpose in mind and who will be a driving force behind the community. Most communities that […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, community development, networking, social networking, me.edu.au | Comments (6)

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, blogs, social networking, edna Groups, me.edu.au | Comments (1)

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, blogs, social networking, web 2.0, me.edu.au, myedna | Comments (2)

me.edu.au goes live

December 17, 2007 – 12:23 pm

edna has released a new and exciting service for Australian educators in beta format at http://me.edu.au
The new system provides an online professional network where educators can identify their professional interests, join communities with similar interests, and view and respond to the activities of their online colleagues. It incorporates features of social networking sites to build […]

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

Why write a blog?

December 12, 2007 – 9:19 am

Came across this today: Common Craft’s Blogs in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
All about who makes the news - the differences between news in the 20th and 21st centuries. The sources of “news”, and how news can become a two-way street.

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, blogs, web 2.0 | Comments (0)