Monthly Archives: May 2009

Learning U or Participatory Learning – what’s in a name? Plenty!

Serendipity. I love the sound of the word and how its definition applies so frequently to dicoveries and interactions on the web. The Merriam Webster online dictionary defines it as; the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things … Continue reading

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School’s out Friday

  I first saw this well over a year ago but it’s a video you never tire of.  The Medieval Help Desk. I still chuckle every time I see it and so do the students I’ve shown it to. It has … Continue reading

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Why Ning needs an ad free education platform.

I love Ning. I really do. I’m just not all that happy with them right now. Those of you who follow this blog will know that I started a Ning for our Yr 9 English classes in February this year. It’s … Continue reading

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Mindspot – a library of the future happening now

Watch this. We can learn from this example. Ask our users what they need. Simple idea really. You can find more information about the project here.  It’s a German site so you’ll need to find a way to translate the page. … Continue reading

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The Robert Pattinson effect

Cover of Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition) An interesting thing happened on the way to building readership of our school library blog. One of our staff wrote a post about Robert Pattinson. (You know him, he plays Edward in this film that’s … Continue reading

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School’s out Friday

Here’s Hamish Blake at his entertaining best on a television show that airs here in Australia called ‘Thank God you’re here’. The actors have to improvise after walking through a door and finding themselves in a scene where the other … Continue reading

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