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International Women’s Day, March 8

February 28, 2008 – 8:22 am

Celebrated on 8 March, International Women’s Day (IWD) is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. IWD celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future.
Annually on 8 March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, International Women's Day, IWD | Comments (0)

Howard Rheingold on Collaboration

February 18, 2008 – 9:54 am

My TED newsletter on Friday brought with it a link to the latest offering in talks on its theme The Rise of Collaboration. Howard Rheingold talks about new collaboration, participatory media and collective action — how Wikipedia, and other projects, are really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. He […]

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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 The first two issues: Technology in Education, and University Recruiting, are no longer active but the third on Social Networking has just begun.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, community building, 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, community building, 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, community building, social networking, collaboration, oz-teachers | Comments (4)

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, web 2.0, edna Groups, me.edu.au, digital footprint | Comments (0)

Defining your digital footprint

January 7, 2008 – 9:29 am

A recent article from Pew/Internet about online identity management called Digital Footprints (pdf) really hits the mark for me. Their research found that while internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint, few actually monitor their online presence with great regularity.
Where we have been often lingers long after the project, the conference, or […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, social networking, me.edu.au, digital footprint | 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, community building, social networking, me.edu.au | Comments (4)

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 […]

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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, blogs, social networking, web 2.0 | Comments (2)