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Information Technologies not necessarily reducing our environmental footprint

March 6, 2009 – 8:00 am

In a recent article titled “Green IT not helping climate change” Richard Hawkins, Canada Research Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, says there is no evidence that information technologies necessarily reduce our environmental footprint. His research will provide input into the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) initiative on IT and sustainability at […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, green ICT | Comments (0)

How permanently connected are you?

January 6, 2009 – 8:01 am

Out with some friends the other night, the conversation got around to how easy it was to keep in touch with family and friends. My husband sent an SMS to our daughter overseas, and minutes later she replied. The day before we had been having a conversation with our son in law via MS Messenger.
In […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, cloud computing, mobile technologies | Comments (1)

Enhancing your professional education profile in 2009

January 2, 2009 – 8:09 am

This promotional video for me.edu.au, featuring me.edu.au users Simon Brown, Jess McCulloch and Martin Pluss, provides an overview of the free me.edu.au professional networking site for Australian educators managed by Education.au on behalf of DEEWR.

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, professional development, professional learning | Comments (1)

Who am I - my digital identity

May 12, 2008 – 10:27 am

Stephen Downes presented a very engaging talk at the recent Eifel ePortfolio conference in Montreal.
His presentation called My Digital Identity is well worth listening to.
Stephen describes it as a “scattered presentation that looks at authentication and identification, resource profiles, and e-portfolios. Mixed in with notions of the self, potentiality, historicity, and dimensionality. With a description […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, e-portfolio, eportfolio, metadata | Comments (0)

Teachers going digital

April 10, 2008 – 5:24 pm

Since most of today’s students can appropriately be labeled as “Digital Learners”, why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?
Have you seen the Pay Attention video on Teacher Tube?
This presentation was created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching.
At the edna […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, professional development, edna workshops | Comments (0)

How things are changing

February 22, 2008 – 2:24 pm

You probably all seen this video
Education Today and Tomorrow
But have you seen these from Michael Wesch?

A Vision of Students Today (Students 2.0)

Information R/evolution

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Many thanks to Elliot Masie for pointing to Students 2.0

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, web 2.0, changes in education | Comments (0)

Can we have too many gizmos?

February 12, 2008 – 12:05 pm

Thanks to Stephen Downes’ OLDaily today for pointing me towards this very interesting article in the Washington Post. In an article titled A School That’s Too High on Gizmos, English teacher Patrick Welsh writes provocatively about what he calls technolust - “the insatiable need to acquire the latest, fastest, most exotic computer gadgets”. The high […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, schools, Australian education | Comments (2)

edna and me tour 2008

January 30, 2008 – 2:53 pm

Now is the time to register for edna and me workshops planned for the next few months across Australia.
Presented by a team of people, edna’s hands-on workshops provide training in the use of online services and collaborative tools. Each one day mini conference will include guest speakers, hands-on sessions and presentations about technologies transforming education. […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, edna workshops, edna, ednaworkshops08 | Comments (0)

No Internet Day - how will you cope?

January 18, 2008 – 7:30 am

For the last few years the last Sunday of January has been celebrated as International Internet-Free Day, a day for doing and being out in the real world. Have a real chat instead of a virtual chat room. Interact in real time with real live people! Be your own Home Page.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/news/index.php?articleId=186
My first reaction was - thank […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building | Comments (5)

Digital footprint and edna

January 9, 2008 – 11:20 am

edna (education Network Australia), EdNA Online as it was then, launched Single Sign On (SSO) In December 2005. The basic idea behind SSO was to bring together in one place all times when an individual might need to log into edna, and to attach that to one unique login id and password.
The SSO service when […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, networking, web 2.0, edna Groups, me.edu.au | Comments (0)