Monthly Archives: March 2009
Spreading the word to stop the word.
Retarded. It’s a word with strong connotations. I used to hear that word a lot when I was a kid. At school you’d hear it bandied around. “You’re retarded”, was something I remember people flipantly directing at team members when playing … Continue reading
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Daraja Academy opens its doors
Mark Lukach edited this video showing the students from Daraja Academy in Kenya. He wanted to capture the energy of the school and i think he’s done a great job doing that. The school opened its doors three weeks ago … Continue reading
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Network Literacy – the next big thing
I said I’d get back here to reflect on my presentation at the Perspectives on Learning V.2 SLAV conference and our PLP (Powerful Learning Practice) face to face meeting at Toorak College on Tuesday. The week’s been a long one … Continue reading
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Sleepout for Schools
We had a great meeting with some of our Yr 9 students during the week to see if there was enough interest to get a fundraising activity organised to support Daraja Academy in Kenya (see Mark Lukach’s page here and blog posts … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
It’s been such a busy week I haven’t had time to get here and post anything about the SLAV conference on Monday, or our face to face PLP meeting with Will Richardson that was held at my school on Tuesday. But … Continue reading
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Perspectives on Learning v2 – SLAV conference
Here is the presentation I delivered today (or am about to anyway!) called ‘So you know Web 2.0, what next. I’ll get back here and let you know how it all went! more about "Perspectives on Learning v2 – SLAV … Continue reading
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Using Social Media to effect change
I presented today at a conference for students that was held at my school. My presentation was ‘Using Social Media to effect change’. It’s embedded at the end of this post. I used SlideRocket to create the presentation and was … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
This is ‘Lost Generation’, and it was second place getter in the ARRP U@50 competition. According to its creator, it is based on the Argentinian Political Advertisement “The Truth” by RECREAR. My friend Nina discovered it a couple of … Continue reading
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Using Social Media to effect change
I presented today at a conference for students that was held at my school. My presentation was ‘Using Social Media to effect change’. I’ve been trying to embed it here but the code is not cooperating. I used SlideRocket to … Continue reading
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The Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition
Educause and the New Media Consortium have just released the K – 12 Edition of The Horizon Report. Horizon Reports always make for interesting reading, as they predict the time to adoption of many of the emerging technologies finding their … Continue reading
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