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Revisiting the Digital Footprint message
Today, I delivered a presentation to our Year 11 students about how they conduct themselves in online spaces, to ensure their safety and to cultivate a positive digital footprint. I delivered a similar presentation to this same cohort in May … Continue reading
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What’s a Digital Footprint and why would you want one? Presentation for Leading a Digital School conference.
I delivered ‘What is a Digital Footprint and why would you want one?’ at the Leading a Digital School Conference here in Melbourne last week. You’ll have to follow the link to my wikispaces page to view it as the … Continue reading
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What’s in a name?
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Marshall McLuhan Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently made a some very interesting comments while being interviewed by Holman W Jenkins from the Wall Street Journal; … Continue reading
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Nurturing their Digital Footprint – lessons for Year 12
As part of our continued push to acknowledge the importance of Cybersafety instruction at my school, today I delivered a presentation to our Yr 12 students about how they can nurture their digital profile. Just a month or so ago, … Continue reading
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Rives responds – real life digital literacy
Recently, I posted about my daughter Cassidy’s emoticon story that she completed for an English project. It was inspired by the poet Rives, who delivered ‘A Story of Mixed Emoticons‘ at TED 2008. While I was looking at Rives’ blog, … Continue reading
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A story about longing, loving, and coming to a realisation
I am one very proud mother tonight. This is the work of my beautiful daughter; it’s her multimodal creative response for an English assignment based around the theme of ‘Romance and Relationships’. It’s all her own work, inspired by the … Continue reading
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Facebook and privacy – is your school helping students to understand privacy settings?
Facebook is the primary social network most of our students are accessing to manage their social lives. Are they going to stop using it anytime soon? No, they’re not. They’re not going to stop because it’s their communication platform- it’s … 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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