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Tonight’s Libraries Sunraysia group meeting had a Technology theme.  It was an opportunity for me to share with library colleagues in the district a few simple applications that can be successfully applied to the classroom among them being:  Voicethread, Animoto and Toondoo.  The discussion also lead to moving beyond Facebook to the more professional Diigo network along with the [...]

Well, it’s been just one month since school began for the year.  The world of stock broking comments that the behaviour of the market in the first month is a good indication of what it will be like for the year.  Using this as a yardstick, I would suggest that 2008 is a ‘tipping point’ year [...]

So often we hear the lament that colleagues feel overwhelmed by the pressure to keep up with the game in the rapidly evolving education and library scene.  No time, don’t know where to look.  David Warlick has written and excellent article on his blog this week entitled The path to becoming a literate educator Take [...]

Yesterday I attended the State Library of Victoria conference – Libraries, Web 2.0 and other internet stuff.  Providing a picture into the the planned future pathway for public libraries, it was a day packed with ideas and inspiration.  Helene Blowers from Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, USA, the creator of the ‘23 things’ Web 2.0 learning site was inspirational.  Interesting that [...]

There is so much happening out there on the web these days but still so many people are struggling to keep up. Recently I was interested to come across the Californina School Library Association 23 things website. The purpose of this site it to enable you to work through various skills week by week until [...]

A recent visit to my page on TappedIn and a check of the calendar of events for the site reminded me of the session by Bernie Dodge, the originator of the webquest model (in association with Tom March). At the NECC Conference in Philadelphia July 2005 I attended the packed session presented by Bernie Dodge [...]