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Here is an interesting online community for educators to share instructional videos. It probably fills a need for an educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners given that for many schools, access to YouTube videos are blocked. There are some interesting videos for teachers to use with students or for teachers ( Read more... )

According to a February 2007 AEU press release I am reading this weekend, public schools have been given little extra resourcing or time to successfully implement the new curriculum and reporting requirements. In Victoria, the principals that completed the survey must have been referring to the VELS. According to the AEU survey, the workload of ( Read more... )

Phil posted an interesting question on the Moodle mailing list about using tablet computers with interactive electronic whiteboards that got me thinking.  Yesterday at the VITTA conference I have heard Don mention about using a classroom set of cheaper graphics tablets, shared whiteboard software and a conventional projection system. This would ( Read more... )

We are reinventing many aspects of business and schooling with a focus on networks. It imperative for teachers to understand and objectively enage with the new technologies that underpin these new distributed networks. It is an issue that our ASISTM cluster has been working through.

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For all my IT classes, I have created a SciTech chat forum in Moodle. In this forum I post a weekly topical quirky news item, often with an ethical twist or dilemma. Topics have ranged from proposals to track individual student movements with RFID tag implants to letting them digitally airbrush pimples out of their official school photographs ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a cool lunch with some friends at a Joe's Gararge, a cool cafe in Brunswick street that even offers free wireless Internet access to its patrons! Tony gave me some good clues about a problem running GameMaker on Ubuntu , Donna and friends gave me some good pointers about Open Source solutions in schools.

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I took the trouble to clean my desk at work, mostly throwing away papers that I could search for online if needed.

I did rediscover this interesting Danish paper by Dalsgaard. The research paper considers eLearning beyond LMS( learning management systems) by evaluating the potential for social software tools such as blogs, wikis and other personal ( Read more... )