Friday post: The future and other ramblings

It is the end of the week and I have begun a number of posts that are still drafts. The topics include my thoughts on Twitter and also Cloud computing and what they offer, if anything, to the world of education and libraries. I have been considering the use I make of the different digital and social media in general. [...]

Looking for inspiration

 My 201st post and it seems along time since my first one.                   ‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas.The presentations are a collaboration between lots of [...]

Pool & collaboration and the ABC

The photo is from Antarctic Photo Library on Wikimedia Commons Another great resource becoming available to us. From a post on the Creative Commons Australia site about the Pool site.  If you haven’t seen it, ABC Radio National developed the Pool, just under 6 months ago, as a social media project. It is a collaborative space set up [...]

Digital identity – what are we teaching?

We have been back at school for a few weeks now and all the students have their re-imaged notebook computers back. The year 7 students have had their first “technology immersion days”, where they learnt the basics about their new tool and one of the software tools (photostory) that is available to them. Maybe it is [...]

The Human clock and calendar

                      I have been trying to think interesting themes that students could be given for their photographs. I had seen a few references to the HumanClock.com and the HumanCalendar so I though I would have a look.  The February example of the calendar is above. [...]