edna, me, and the digital world goes online with free online workshops
Workshops: Wed. 18 June 2008 - times are AEST
8-9 am - social networking with me.edu.au
10-11 am - Finding resources for embedding in Multimedia
1-2 pm - Digital Literacies
4-5 pm - Learning without Borders
7.30-8.30 pm - Education in Other Worlds
All sessions will use Wimba Live Classroom, […]
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 […]
Professional associations in Australia typically have a volunteer committee and sometimes an employed executive officer. The state-based professional association is often affiliated with a national body, which is sometimes in turn affiliated with an international body.
Online communities can often complement the work of the professional association. However the face to face professional association often has […]
Figures I have recently heard from a number of sources, mainly anecdotally, is that if you look at any gaggle of educators in the Western world, engagement in using ICT tools is at about 20%. What is occupying a lot of attention is how to engage the other 80%.
One of the frustrations continues to be […]
Private sector grabs Rhodes scholar in The Australian’s Higher Education section on Feb 7 takes the NSW Education Department to task for their insistence three years ago that a Rhodes Scholar would not be employed as a teacher until she had some teaching qualifications. The stumbling block was the completion of a one-year diploma of […]
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 The first two issues: Technology in Education, and University Recruiting, are no longer active but the third on Social Networking has just begun.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 […]
This morning I joined in a Japanese class where a teacher in an Adelaide suburban school was taking a class of 6 students in rural West coast school. My role was mentor/helper. We were using an instance of Live Classroom in an edna Sandpit Group. Live Classroom is a web-conferencing plug-in to Moodle which we […]
I am wondering if it is fair to say that Australian educators are still largely newbies in the online world?
It also seems to me that there is a real possibility that the gap is widening between those who ‘have the knowledge’ and those who are yet to start.
If you are yet to start on an […]
A good friend, Lindy McKeown, ACCE and ISTE ICT Leader of the Year 2006, is ‘doing’ her PhD on use of 3D learning environments. She has set up Terra Incognita in Second Life as an island for educators. A dozen of us have become her “lab rabbits” and have begun thinking about how such environments might be used […]
Wikipedia itself defines a wiki as “a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Most wiki sites including wikipedia […]
