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Category Archives: online technologies


Social Networking Guidelines - Twitter, Facebook etc

June 10, 2009 – 12:15 pm

In the mini survey that I ran about Twitter and Facebook, Question 7 asked “Should there be specific published guidelines for use of Twitter or Facebook?”
no - 8; undecided - 10; yes - 23. So it seems the jury is still out on this.
Some people are pretty adamant they don’t need guidelines, others want to […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, twitter, FaceBook | Comments (1)

Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly - Which?

May 15, 2009 – 8:15 am

Yesterday, through a post I saw on Twitter, I came across John Connell’s blog posting about the Obama Toolkit.
In their report Edelman’s have considered the “Social media lessons from the Obama campaign,” and in particular have produced some very interesting diagrams.
The one I like best is the Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly diagram, and what it […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, social networking | Comments (0)

Check your technologies in here please

May 11, 2009 – 9:26 am

The recently published CoSN report Leadership for Web 2.0 in Education: Promise and Reality says that despite “a growing body of evidence that the collaboration inherent in the participatory
nature of Web 2.0 tools can be leveraged to deepen student learning through authentic, real-world learning…. too many are being asked to check their technologies each morning […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, learning environments, web 2.0, future schooling, changes in education | Comments (2)

To FaceBook or not to FaceBook?

May 8, 2009 – 10:43 am

As I promised yesterday when I asked whether teachers should have a FaceBook page, I have begun a little research into how educators are using FaceBook.
Some of the issues I am seeing emerge:
Students may have a problem with sensing what is appropriate netiquette
Teachers may need to think about separating their professional and personal lives
elements of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, netiquette, social networking, FaceBook | Comments (5)

Should teachers have a Facebook page?

May 6, 2009 – 8:53 am

Out on the weekend with my reading group, mainly teachers, connected by our crime fiction reading.
The conversation somehow got around to Facebook and it’s potential for connecting family and friends. One of the group said she had decided not to go onto Facebook because she didn’t want to run the risk of either being harassed […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, netiquette, social networking, FaceBook | Comments (4)

Horizon Report 2009 K12 Edition

March 25, 2009 – 8:41 am

The first ever Horizon Report for the K12 sector describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education.
See web version or download pdf.
The Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 edition is a publication of the New […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, future schooling | Comments (1)

Has web 2.0 made a difference to you?

March 16, 2009 – 7:16 am

Are you still thinking in traditional terms? Is it inhibiting your use of innovative technologies?
According to George Siemens

What holds the business world back—especially in learning technologies terms—is that we keep planting the seed of innovation in the architecture of tradition…. “The possibility to innovate with mobile technologies is enormous… but it doesn’t happen because […]

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

Blogging Corner Carnival #2

February 25, 2009 – 7:50 am

At the beginning of March the edna Group Blogging Corner will be posting its 2nd carnival.
If you are a blogger and would like to draw people’s attention to your blog, pick a posting you have made recently and submit it to the carnival at http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_6037.html
The categories in the Carnival are:
* Challenges and Events
* Classroom Blogs
* […]

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Just sprinkling technology on the top?

January 9, 2009 – 6:00 am

Isn’t that a delightful concept?
I came across it in a posting titled What should we do with those computers? Admittedly that blogger didn’t create the phrase. Yosif quotes Eileen Lento:
“If you’re just sprinkling the technology on top of the curriculum, it’s not as compelling,” says. Intel’s [Eileen Lento, a government and education strategist]. “Then you […]

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Trends predicted for 2009

January 7, 2009 – 8:00 am

So, 2009 is with us, and predictions for what will happen are beginning to emerge, even though we have already had some predictors with the Horizon reports.
m-trends.org makes his Mobile and Wireless predictions for 2009.

1. 10 startups I know personally will go bankrupt
2. iPhone Nano
3. Location becomes obsolete
4. Mobile will boost Virtual Goods consumption
5. Mobile […]

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