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Shared Scribbles
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... ) -
Reinventing schools
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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Glen Boreham, the new CEO and managing director of IBM, ( Read more... ) -
Chit Chat
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... ) -
stamping out malware
A past student mentioned a virus problem that he had on his work computer. He suggested that it was sourced from an e-mail on Thunderbird. I did some research on the web, learning a couple of new things and good suggestions on this discussion thread that considered "Is an e-mail scanner neccessary".
The Thunderbird website reports that:
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School rage
The ABC health report had an interesting page that considered how people with Intermittent Explosive Disorder react with an anger grossly out of proportion to the situation triggering it. The condition involves at least three occasions in a year where a person loses control and breaks or smashes something, tries to hurt someone, or threatens to. ( Read more... ) -
Serving an ACE
Last year, the Australian Government commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to investigate and report on models for an Australian Certificate of Education. The 224 page ACE investigation report is now available for download ( Read more... )
