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Category Archives: web 2.0


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 […]

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

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, online technologies, community building, blogs | Comments (0)

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 […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, professional development, professional learning, community building, edna Groups, edna10, Live Classroom, web conferencing | Comments (0)

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, RSS | Comments (1)

SINs are big in edna Groups

September 12, 2007 – 12:18 pm

SINs are Special Interest Networks and, in case you are not aware of it, that is what edna Groups is all about. Pre-social networking we would probably have talked about SIGs (Special Interest Groups) but they often used only one vehicle of communication such as a bulletin board or an email discussion list.
edna Groups provides […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, community development, networking, community building, social networking, edna Groups | Comments (0)

Digital Divide - change of focus

September 12, 2007 – 11:22 am

One of the ideas that crossed my mind yesterday as I was writing my blog about the Creating and Connecting report, was that it focussed on online students and parents. Nowhere did I see an estimate of the %age of the population who might not have any online access.
It was also ‘telling’ (in a quirky […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, eduausem2007, digital divide, Howard Rheingold | Comments (0)

Digital Chalkie

August 14, 2007 – 9:09 am

Digital Chalkie is an open group blog for Australian (and beyond) K-12 educators interested in the power of ICTs to enhance educational outcomes. Maintained by Paul Reid, and based in Western Australia, Digital Chalkie aims to allow geographically disparate Australian educators to collaborate beyond the closed and often very useful discussions that go on behind […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, professional learning, networking, blogs | Comments (2)

danah boyd podcasts now available

August 8, 2007 – 10:57 am

The podcasts of the educationau seminar in Brisbane on social networking featuring danah boyd are now available at http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/
The podcasts now available are (in reverse order to the way you will see them on the blog)

danah boyd keynote - part 1
http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/page/2/
(Click older posts at the bottom of the first page)
danah boyd keynote - part […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, eduausem2007, learning environments, virtual environments, danah boyd, social networking | Comments (1)