What is e-learning now?

Yesterday I got the opportunity to speak again at the Chisholm Institute ‘Ripple’ Conference at the Mt Eliza Business School, overlooking Port Phillip Bay; this time with a focus on what e-learning looks like to me  now and how can help support teachers through change. Last year I focused on the students who were coming [...]

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Google Sites

A while ago Google purchased the wiki engine Jotspot and I was wondering where they would go with this tool. I registered interest in the next stage of this development and his week I got an email saying that Google had launched Google Sites. I’m not totally convinced yet, it seems to want to default [...]

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The end of email as we know it…?

The Australian today published an article sourced from The Independent called ‘The end of email; discover new ways to stay in touch’, which focuses on new communication modes, particularly the use of collaborative websites like wikis or google documents to facilitate effective team work. The article gives some interesting examples of companies that have moved [...]

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Tiddlywiki

This is one of those tools that grows in usefulness the more you use it. It’s basically a mini wiki that runs on your computer and I use it grab little snippets of daily information which I can tag or archive. I began using it just to grab notes on telephone conversations and I liked [...]

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A spring in the step

Couldn’t help but notice a spring in the step of students and staff today as the long, dark winter term comes to a close. I almost couldn’t keep my mind on a good discussion about wiki features today, thinking about having a few days down the coast re-charging the batteries.

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Edu Blogger Con

The Edublogger ‘unconference’ is currently underway in Georgia, Atlanta. You can follow proceedings, even participate, on the un-conference wiki. EduBloggerCon Atlanta 2007 Powered by ScribeFire.

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Wikis in plain English

This disarmingly simple little video does go a long way to help explain the potential of wikis in plain Engish. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/-dnL00TdmLY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

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Rationale Wiki

Earlier this year I blogged about a concept mapping software called Rationale, which has some nice features, particularly in the area of planning essays and analysing arguments. Not quite the free-form approach of Inspiration, and not the crazy online lower-caese way of bubbl.us I was talking about earlier this week, but some good specific features [...]

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Engaging middle years students with web 2.0

Lauren O’Grady from Caroline Springs School in Melbourne (ICTEV Teacher of the Year) talked about engaging middle years students. She began by showing us the ‘What is Web 2.0′ video, which is a pretty powerful presentation on the text to hypertext transformation, (web vs us) thought it didn’t really explain the web 1 to 2 [...]

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ICTEV 2007 – Digital Discussions

Off to the ICTEV Conference on Saturday. I went last year, and enjoyed the small scale, hands on nature of the event. This year the theme is ‘digital conversations’; I can feel a podcast coming on! So what are digital discussions and how can we utilise them best in our classrooms. Digital discussions obviously fit [...]

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