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Category Archives: online technologies


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, networking, 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, Australian education, community development, networking, community building, social networking, me.edu.au | Comments (6)

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, community building, blogs, web 2.0 | Comments (0)

Why the title?

November 30, 2007 – 3:38 pm

I’ve been asked to explain the title of my blog “You Are Never Alone”. The first time I ever used the title was for the first presentation I ever gave at an ICT conference, ACEC2000. The paper that I wrote was really about the usefulness, even necessity, of belonging to supportive professional email lists.
I had […]

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edna10 - birthday roundup

November 30, 2007 – 3:08 pm

The celebrations of edna’s 10th birthday went off really well.
Find out what happened through the following resources.

Visit edna’s 10th birthday page - http://www.edna.edu.au/10birthday for details and updates or to find out what tags, Second Life, Live Classroom, del.icio.us, Technorati, Flickr, Frappr maps and/or Voice Threads are all about.
edna’s 10th birthday and the journey of […]

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Edublog Award 2007 Finalists announced

November 26, 2007 – 1:22 pm

I have the greatest respect for the people who continue to serve up high quality blogs and this distilled list of the original 500+ nominations gives us some high standard exemplars.
http://edublogawards.com/edublog-awards-2007-finalists-announced 
And now I discover I know at least 5 of the nominees, so if I vote, the choice is very hard…

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

edna10- where we’ve been, what we’ve done

November 23, 2007 – 11:19 am

Putting together some materials for a presentation in the edna10 Live Classroom for next week I’ve been compiling visuals about edna milestones.
if you’ve been following edna for the last ten years you will know that the face of edna has changed over that time. (I’ve often disrespectfully referred to them as edna’s facelifts)Here are a […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, edna10 | Comments (0)

edna’s 10th - beginning the countdown

November 22, 2007 – 10:02 am

Only 5 sleeps to edna’s 10th birthday.
Today we got greetings from Luisa Marquardt in Italy who sent a link to her blog posting.
http://biblioragazzi.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/i-primi-10-anni-di-edna/
 
One of the staff translated the Italian for me (mine is only good for reading railway timetables) as:
EDNA (EDucation Network Australia), the Australian network of interesting resources, easily accessible online and useful for […]

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edna 10th birthday celebrations

November 21, 2007 – 9:42 am

On Tuesday 27 November, edna is celebrating its 10th birthday, a remarkable achievement in the online world.
edna’s 10th birthday celebrations give you a chance to celebrate with us, and experience a live event through either the Live Classroom web conferencing tool in Sandpit Groups or the 3D space Second Life.
Details are available at http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/about/pid/2040
Live Classroom
Our […]

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RSS: Ready for Some Stories

October 4, 2007 – 2:08 pm

One of my workshop “battles” is getting people to understand RSS and today I came across one of the most attractive explanations I have seen so far. My journey took me from Lisa Lane’s Teaching Blog to How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way by Stephanie Qilao. I really like the concept that RSS feeds […]

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