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School Library Association of Victoria is holding a one day conference Make, share do: active online learning in Melbourne on Friday 30th July and featuring acclaimed US school library professional, Joyce Valenza. Although this is Joyce’s first visit to Australia, she is well known within the school library network and a member of many of [...]

The K12 Online Conference is almost here again.  This conference,  now in its 4th year,  offers a wonderful opportunity for engagement in professional learning for educators.  It’s FREE, online, available in your time and presented by your peers.  Sessions are approx 20 minutes each.  Download them as podcasts.     Enter the conversation hub via the k12 [...]

Wes Fryer is one of the familiar US voices for ‘relevance, meaning and application’ in K-12 education.  I subscribe to his Speed of Creativity podcasts through iTunes as they’re fine examples of good practice for teachers and are always engaging. For some time now Wes been talking about Oklahoma Voices and the Storychasers project.  The [...]

Earlier this week at the VITTA Conference in Melbourne, I delivered a presentation on the collaborative project I’m coordinating between Year 7 Humanities class here in Mildura and a class in Newburg Oregon, USA.  Diane Peters and I met at NECC in July and have managed to get the project off the ground with the [...]

The third annual K12 Online Conference has started and the first opening keynote featuring Stephen Heppel has been posted to the site.  This conference is a unique professional development opportunity to engage with ideas and technologies that are having a real impact on 21st century classrooms. Stephen Heppel Keynote: “It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century [...]

Monday’s SLAV conference ‘Re-imagining – Web 2.0 applications and implications’ at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome was a great success. Will Richardson of Weblogg-Ed was an inspirational keynote.  Having met him at NECC Philadelphia in 2005, I was interested to discuss where blogging and Web 2.0 had come since then.  Like so many of us, he would never [...]

Stephen Heppell was a good choice for kicking off the VITTA conference.  His vision of the future of education, coupled with a mass of successful projects make him well worth listening to.  He’s been responsible for projects such as Ultralab, Teachers TV, the Thailand Knowledge Park and is presently working on Building Cayman’s Future.   Stephen [...]

Changing webhosts has slowed down blog entries lately, however, it will all be over when this blog is transferred to a new site any day now. The setting up is quite a challenge but we’ll win in the end. In the meantime, tap into NECC 2007. I was fortunate to be able to attend this [...]