CEGSA 2012 – George And Tony
Going to a CEGSA conference is always a weird experience for me. It’s run by my local professional association on which I spent two years as a committee member (where I don’t think that I contributed...
View ArticleCEGSA2012 Presentation – Digital Content Meets Digital Literacy
Text and slides from today’s presentation. Unfortunately for my slide design which featured a growing mindmap, I presented on a LCD screen which made it difficult for delegates to see properly. So the...
View ArticleQuick Review – Program Or Be Programmed
I love reading, watching and listening to Douglas Rushkoff. I think he is one of the great minds of the last twenty years and he has amazing insight into popular culture and the way western society...
View ArticlePRC – A Limited South Australian Perspective
On Sunday night, John Evans tweeted out this query: Can any of my Aussie friends provide some feedback on the success of the Premier’s Reading Challenge initiative? ow.ly/cdsUE — John Evans (@joevans)...
View ArticleDoing Something Worthwhile
At this moment in time, there are multiple options for anyone in the learning game. In my case: I could be writing a blog post (obviously). I could be tweeting other people’s links out to other people....
View ArticleMaking Connections For CALD Students
At our Tuesday staff PD session, we had the privilege of hearing from one of DECD’s African Community Liaison Officers (CLO for short) who had worked briefly at my school earlier in 2012 as a...
View ArticleThe Workaround
A teacher asked me to help with her class’s work on “goods and services” where they were creating their own fictional business and researching the types of goods and services they would offer. We were...
View ArticleCartoons As Social Objects
I’m not alone when I cite Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid as one of my favourite cartoonists on the web. I also really like Alex Noriega, Jessica Hagy, Doug Savage but my all time favourite cartoonist...
View ArticleHere’s My First Conscious Social Object Concept (Very Rough Format)
Following on from yesterday’s post: This idea stems from a common problem in primary school yards – dropped litter. Buckets that encourage social responsibility with a touch of fun – and bin “monsters”...
View ArticleMy TEFL Story of Significant Impact
Here in South Australia, we have a pedagogical guide known as TfEL (Teaching for Effective Learning) which is the how that backs onto the what of the Australian Curriculum. From the Guide: What is the...
View ArticleMAS (Minecraft Avoidance Syndrome)
I just finished watching The Fellowship Of The Rings last night. I think I may have watched The Two Towers when it came out in the cinemas but I definitely haven’t seen the final film in the trilogy...
View ArticleWhat Does An Educational Supplies Store Tell Us About Teachers?
I went with my wife and eldest son to an educational supplies store today. My wife is an early years teacher and wanted to have a look around for a few key resources for her classroom, and my son and I...
View ArticleTwitter Is The Low Hanging Fruit Of Networked Learning
I’ve just finished reading a blog post by Dean Shareski on being a more regular blogger. Knowing Dean a little bit, I actually thought it may have been about fibre and looking after your bowel. But a...
View Article#DLDA
This week is a bit of an overload on conference /professional learning events for me. On Monday, it was a whole day event with Dylan William, the Assessment for Learning guru along with the rest of my...
View ArticleMixed Messages And Simple Truths
On Monday, I heard Dylan William say that computers don’t make a difference to learning in the classroom. On Thursday, I heard Gerry White say that technology is responsible for a 12% increase in...
View ArticleMy Tablet Deployment Thus Far …
At my school, we’ve tried something a little different when improving technology access for our upper primary classes. I had noticed that student ownership of the building laptop trolleys was lacking –...
View ArticleMaking The Right Decisions
My role involves the management of a large budget – the school’s allocation of funds towards its technology purchases. It is my responsibility to make decisions about spending that money wisely. Only a...
View ArticleThe Present Allows Us To Live In The Past
Thanks to YouTube, there is a massive amount of archival content uploaded from the video vaults from account users all over the world. Amongst all of the new stuff, the viral videos, the VEVO new...
View ArticleMinecraftEDU Observations – FWIW
I’ve been running some Friday afternoon sessions with a small group of middle primary students on our relatively new MinecraftEDU server. I’m running this as part of a small research project to explore...
View ArticlePenguins In Decline
The family got back yesterday from a few days down on the Fleurieu Peninsula, basing ourselves at Goolwa. This is the third time in three years and it really is a nice part of the world to kick back...
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