Nov

27

Is that a light on the hill?

November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

An election has just been held in Australia and will bring a Labor government into power after 11 years of Liberal (Conservative) Party rule. The first priority of the new government, according to Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd, is an “education revolution”. The key planks of this policy include promises to link every school to a [...]

Nov

27

Edublogs awards ‘07

November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

I’ve been too busy to blog anything thoughtful lately as I try to tame the beastly workload that comes at the end of the school year, so I was really chuffed to be shortlisted for the 2007 Edublogs Awards for best new blog. There are some fantastic writers/teachers/thinkers who are using the read/write web to [...]

Nov

21

Beating bullying on Youtube

November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Nov

19

Multiple Intelligences Wiki

November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Just found this Digital Arts for Multiple Intelligences wiki by Clay Burell, via Watson Common.
There is a MI questionnaire, along with a range of activities “to see which “Digital Arts” might be most enjoyable for you to explore in iLife and Web 2.0“.
As I expected, I fall mostly in the linguistic, intrapersonal intelligence and am [...]

Nov

19

Why Hitler lost the war…

November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

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Nov

18

Free rice

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Via Geography and all that jazz, is FreeRice, a vocab game that donates (through site advertising) 10 grams of free rice through the UN for each word you get correct. According to the about page, FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com and has donated 2,457,120,420 grams of rice [...]

Nov

18

Go Green at Edutopia

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Edutopia has created a Go Green Database to help students, teachers, administrators, and environmental activists
“integrate knowledge and awareness of Earth’s fragility into classwork and community service, carefully blending concern with action to help kids feel engaged and hopeful.” There are Curriculum, Field Trip, Information/Statistics, Lesson Plans, Online Tool, Service Learning Projects, Resource List categories on [...]

Nov

18

Zombie survival guide

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Okay, so it’s way past Halloween but I couldn’t resist, from the makers of the best survival guides, CommonCraft

Via Open Thinking and Digital Pedgagy

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Nov

18

Panaromio - your favourite places

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Panaramio is a mash-up of Google Maps and geopositioned photos. You can add photos from your favourite place that, if approved, will appear in Google Earth. There are now 2.5 million photographs in Google Earth submitted by people from around the world. Cool site that could also be great for use in Geography classes.

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Nov

18

Never use two when one will do…

November 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
William Strunk, Jr.
Lots of [...]

Nov

18

WWI Blog

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier is a blog “made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written. To find out Harry’s fate, follow the blog!”
 

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Nov

17

readability?!#?

November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments

Not sure what this means really, but according to the Blog Readibility test:

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Nov

17

Ditch the digital/native catchcry

November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments

The video, A Vision of Students Today, released by the Kansas State University’s Digital Ethnography has generated some heated debate, particularly in response to Gary Stager’s post, Hey Mom! Look What I Made in College. The video itself has more than 4600 comments and 860,000 hits on YouTube.
Despite the fact that I’m empathetic to students [...]

Nov

13

Watch this space - Flat Tales ‘08

November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Clay Burell has set up a new high school wiki for the 1001 Flat World Tales ‘08 project that will link students from Korea, Honolulu, Australia (X2) and Atlanta. This project follows the inaugural Flat World Tales project last year and is an innovative way to introduce students and teachers to the benefits of a [...]

Nov

12

Can Leopard change my spots?

November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I registered tonight to attend Apple’s ITSC ‘07 , which is in Sydney, Australia on December 10-14. I was browsing through the conference timetable and featured speakers - and the conference looks very cool. I’m looking forward to exploring the capabilities of the new OS Leopard. Being in an Apple 1:1 school, I’m keen to [...]

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