Monthly Archives: April 2009
School’s out Friday
I think this is truly wonderful. It was a promotional stunt for a television program in Belgium. They were looking for someone to play the lead in a version of ‘The Sound of Music’. It occurred at Central Station Antwerp in Belgium … Continue reading
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“Books, newspapers face battle in dawn of digital revolution”. So says the Geelong Advertiser.
Yesterday I posted about the Geelong Advertiser and the interview I conducted with them after they contacted me via Twitter. At that stage I’d searched the site but couldn’t find any article referencing my name. Today I received this tweet from John Pearce; … Continue reading
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Newspapers using Twitter
I had an interesting experience last week as I was heading out to attend the Digital Fair at Geelong Grammar. I sent out a tweet saying I was about to leave and received a reply from Geelongaddy. Geelongaddy turned out to … Continue reading
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YouTube now big screen
A tweet from Alec Couras sent me to Open Culture and a post by Dan Coleman alerting us all to the fact that you can now watch some full length documentaries and feature films on YouTube. *update - Some films are … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
John Connell referred to this TED Talk in his keynote address today athe Digital Fair run by the Australian College of Educators. I’ll post more about that later tonight hopefully. On the TED site it says this about the talk … Continue reading
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The future of libraries, continued….
I’m finding it harder and harder to get to my RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I’ve no doubt this is in large part due to Twitter consumption. The temptation is always there to just check in to see what’s … Continue reading
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Twitter Mosaic
I needed to post this Twitter Mosaic for a presentation I’m doing this week for the Australian College of Educators at their Digital fair in Geelong. Some of my talk will focus on Twitter as a learning network. This mosaic … Continue reading
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ProCon – Secondary School debators take note
I’ve spent a bit of time looking at ProCon, a website that has as its mission; “Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format.” It’s origins are from the United States, … Continue reading
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