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How will you celebrate May Day?

April 28, 2008 – 3:13 pm

May Day, held on 1 May, is claimed as the birth of the international labour movement in 1890. Marches and rallies on May Day celebrate a vision of a fairer, just, and more sustainable world.
Centuries before that of course May Day was celebrated as the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere, with traditional […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian Schools Calendar | Comments (0)

Finding things to celebrate in 2008

January 14, 2008 – 11:04 am

The Calendar for Australian schools has been produced by edna for the last 7 years. It was created in late 2001 and made available in 2002 as an online calendar. Since 2003 it has been available as a wall calendar, and for the last two years it has been double sided. The original purpose of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, schools, Australian education, edna, Australian Schools Calendar | Comments (0)

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 […]

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

Social Networking et al resources

September 21, 2007 – 10:58 am

Have you come across Common Craft Productions? They produce video materials on web 2.0 tools. Today I found a couple of new videos I hadn’t seen before. They do seem to have the knack of explaining/describing the complex in really simple terms.
Worth looking at

Social Networking in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
Social Bookmarking in Plain English - focus on […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, online technologies, wiki, networking, social networking, web 2.0 | Comments (1)