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Category Archives: web 2.0


Digital Education Revolution - things will be different

May 15, 2008 – 12:18 pm

A discussion here yesterday with colleagues at education.au got me thinking about how different things might be once you can assume that every Year 9-12 secondary student has access to a computer all the time while at school.
One of our group commented that everything that has happened so far in the last 20 years with […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, learning environments, future schooling, digital education revolution | Comments (1)

Growing up with Google

April 30, 2008 – 7:48 pm

An article by Diana Oblinger subtitled what it means to education defines the Net Generation as students who were born after 1982 (that makes them 25+) - students who have never known life without the internet, and have integrated internet access into everything they do.
My elder daughter and her husband moved to Abu Dhabi with […]

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How things are changing

February 22, 2008 – 2:24 pm

You probably all seen this video
Education Today and Tomorrow
But have you seen these from Michael Wesch?

A Vision of Students Today (Students 2.0)

Information R/evolution

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Many thanks to Elliot Masie for pointing to Students 2.0

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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 […]

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How your digital footprint is personalised

January 8, 2008 – 9:28 am

I’m still thinking my way through the Pew/Internet research Digital Footprints (pdf). The report discusses how the advent of Web2.0 has changed the nature of personal information. In the past most of the searchable information related to web pages, published papers, and email postings. Now our public comments on blogs and discussion groups are archived, […]

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

How many personas do you have?

December 19, 2007 – 7:07 am

It seems to me that one of the strange features of the new online social networking world is that we are constantly re-inventing ourselves. I have already spent quite a bit of time setting “myself” up on edna’s latest venture me.edu at http://me.edu.au. You can find me at http://me.edu.au/p/ksmith
I wasn’t very inventive with my identity/name- […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, blogs, social networking, me.edu.au, myedna | Comments (2)

me.edu.au goes live

December 17, 2007 – 12:23 pm

edna has released a new and exciting service for Australian educators in beta format at http://me.edu.au
The new system provides an online professional network where educators can identify their professional interests, join communities with similar interests, and view and respond to the activities of their online colleagues. It incorporates features of social networking sites to build […]

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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.

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Web conferencing and professional development

December 4, 2007 – 12:12 pm

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 […]

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