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- Wikipedia for Schools
- (Wednesday 10th March 2010)
Selected Wikipedia content suitable for schools. Link to your Intranet to browse online or download a DVD for offline browsing.
More BER Dissatisfaction- (Monday 8th March 2010)
Four NSW schools have joined forces to protest their dissatisfaction at work undertaken on their grounds as part of the federal schools stimulus building program. (SMH)
ISER Technology Meetings- (Monday 8th March 2010)
Meetings for teachers across the local region begin today at Cooma TAFE.
SMART Resources- (Thursday 4th March 2010)
Heaps of IWB ideas and lesson resources for the classroom.
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom- (Wednesday 3rd March 2010)
Info, examples and ideas for the use of ICT in the storytelling process.
Australian Curriculum consultation- (Monday 1st March 2010)
Review and comment on the proposed K-10 Australian curriculum in English, History, Maths and Science.
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From Degrading to De-Grading
An interesting read about the value of grading students' work.
Google-proof questioning
A "Google-proof" question requires analysis, interpretation, and investigation. We need to set tasks that challenge thinking skills, not Googling skills.
21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade
Take a stroll down ICT's memory lane.
Engage or Empower?
How can schools use ICT to empower students as learners? Definitely worth a read.
Teacher Tips for Blogging
Ideas and discussion about the organisation of student publishing projects in the classroom. |
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Preview's 'hidden' feature
Apple's Preview application does a lot more than just view PDF documents. You can easily edit photos and PDFs using the Annotate tools.
EverNote
Save ideas, photos, thoughts and other useful notes in "the cloud", then access them all on any computer or mobile device you are using. Free version available.
Strange Characters in iWeb
Remove the strange characters that some older web servers display in sites published with iWeb. |
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Yes Minister - tweeting for work?A government-commissioned report has recommended the public service turn to new media to put bureaucrats more in touch with the people they are employed to serve. (SMH)
ICT Planning
Discussion of ICT planning in the context of whole-school planning practices. |
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Education Tweets
Keep in touch with educators in the world of Twitter - amalgamated feeds from a variety of Twitter tag searches.
Handling the inappropriate
Discussion about what happened when a NSW teacher introduced the Edmodo social networking environment to their Year 9 class. |
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- Standup while you read this!
- (Saturday 27th February 2010)
Running every morning? Regular at the gym? If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes & heart disease.
NAPLAN ranking - rote learning v creative thinking- (Friday 26th February 2010)
This is a ruthlessly free-market revolution whereby schools are service providers that can be measured on outcomes much like companies on the sharemarket. (Jessica Irvine - SMH)
My School league tables for sale- (Friday 26th February 2010)
A company is selling school ranking reports for $97, based on NAPLAN data from the MySchool web site. (SMH)
Gen Z the technologically invaded generation- (Friday 26th February 2010)
The NSW DET logs all aspects of student laptop use but is not planning to access this information unless it uncovers serious misuse. (Maralyn Parker - Telegraph)
FBI Investigating Alleged School Webcam Spying- (Friday 26th February 2010)
"Every now and then an organization will make such a mind-blowingly stupid decision that we're left collectively dumbstruck at such an awesome, frightening, and all-encompassing display of ineptitude."
Letters, sounds at core of new curriculum- (Thursday 25th February 2010)
All states and territories will be forced to follow a set program for teaching reading under the first national English curriculum, which stipulates the letters, sounds and words students must learn in each year of school. (The Australian)
Send in the Inspectors- (Thursday 25th February 2010)
The Federal Education Minister has flagged the possibility of sending in inspectors as part of a second wave of reforms to fix underperforming schools. (SMH)
Children to be given identity numbers- (Wednesday 24th February 2010)
The Federal government is proposing to allocate each student in Australia an identification number that would allow their performance in standardised tests to be monitored for the duration of their school life. (SMH)
Teachers may face dismissal over test scores- (Wednesday 24th February 2010)
A US school district is seeking approval of a policy that would permit the dismissal of teachers whose students don't make enough progress in standardised tests.
Create a splash screen for your iWeb site- (Tuesday 23rd February 2010)
Use Keynote to create a QuickTime intro for your iWeb site.
Teachers brace for another New York initiative- (Monday 22nd February 2010)
Job tenure tied to student performance in standardised tests may be just around the corner for Australian teachers. (SMH)
When education favours division over diversity- (Saturday 20th February 2010)
The Rudd government's recent publication of school league tables is an attack on the wider community and the very essence of a 'fair go'. (John Pilger - SMH)
$40m for teachers’ ICT development- (Saturday 20th February 2010)
The Australian Federal Government has announced it will spend up to $40 million to give teachers training in the use of ICT to support the curriculum.
Pennsylvania schools spying on students?- (Saturday 20th February 2010)
A class-action law suit alleges a school district remotely activated webcams on school-issued notebooks to spy on students.
School ICT Planning- (Thursday 18th February 2010)
Information and resources for school leaders planning the integration of new technologies in the school curriculum.
Student Suspended for Facebook Page Can Sue- (Wednesday 17th February 2010)
A US teenager who sued her former principal after she was suspended for creating a Facebook page criticising a teacher can proceed with a lawsuit against the school.
From Degrading to De-Grading- (Tuesday 16th February 2010)
An interesting read about the value of grading students' work.
School heater sick list grows- (Tuesday 16th February 2010)
Gas heaters which are banned in other states are still being used in hundreds of NSW schools. (SMH)
School heater study delayed- (Monday 15th February 2010)
The results of a NSW study of the safety of thousands of unflued gas heaters in public schools will not be made available before winter, despite strong evidence they can lead to respiratory illness. (SMH)
Online Safety- (Monday 15th February 2010)
"We are safest, in any context, when we are able to take responsibility for our own actions and have been given the knowledge and the skills needed to stay safe." Some thoughts relating to web site filtering in schools. (John Connell)
1:1 - iPods in Year 3- (Friday 12th February 2010)
What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod Touch each?
Education Tweets- (Friday 12th February 2010)
Keep in touch with educators in the world of Twitter - amalgamated feeds from a variety of Twitter tag searches.
The Government wants to blog- (Thursday 11th February 2010)
Web 2.0 technologies provide the opportunity for more transparent government. (Lindsay Tanner - SMH)
Pencil- (Thursday 11th February 2010)
Create traditional hand-drawn animations using both bitmap and vector graphics. (Open source - Mac, Win, Lin)
Education Open Day- (Wednesday 10th February 2010)
All the Sydney Darling Harbour attractions (Maritime Museum, Chinese Gardens, IMAX Theatre, Monorail, Light Rail, Powerhouse Museum, Aquarium, Wildlife World) will be free for teachers on Sunday 21st March.
Something's rotten in NSW- (Tuesday 9th February 2010)
What is wrong with NSW comprehensive public schools? (Ross Cameron - SMH)
MySchool index to be reviewed- (Monday 8th February 2010)
The system used to measure the social disadvantage level of school communities on the federal government's MySchool website is under review, less than two weeks after the site's launch. (SMH)
Inside IDEO- (Monday 8th February 2010)
Great insight into the design process for TAS students. Others will also be interested in the management structure of the organisation.
Forget the net, check the toilets- (Saturday 6th February 2010)
How do parents get really useful information about schools? (John Marsden - SMH)
Shush, folks, we're trying to read- (Friday 5th February 2010)
A new study by the University of Sydney has found that children with below-average language skills performed almost as well as their normally developing peers after their parents changed the way they interacted with them. (SMH)
Students get new subject: the test- (Friday 5th February 2010)
Victorian teachers are being told to "explicitly teach" for the NAPLAN tests as part of a drive to lift the state's overall performance in national rankings. (The Australian)
Doodle 4 Google- (Friday 5th February 2010)
K-12 students have the opportunity to create their own Google logo and have it displayed on the Google homepage.
Preview's 'hidden' features- (Thursday 4th February 2010)
Apple's Preview application does a lot more than just view PDF documents. You can easily edit photos and PDFs using the Annotate tools.
Ranking by NAPLAN results rates a fail- (Wednesday 3rd February 2010)
NAPLAN tests are a useful diagnostic implement for schools. However, they cannot validly carry the weight of community judgment of each school. (Dr John Collier - SMH)
Students bypassing internet filters- (Wednesday 3rd February 2010)
UK school students are using 'proxy servers' to get round their schools' internet security systems. (BBC)
The great divide in school staff numbers- (Tuesday 2nd February 2010)
The MySchool web site reveals that you need 21 students to get a support staff member in a large, metropolitan non-government school and a staggering 84.4 students in a similar-sized government school. (Jane Caro & Chris Bonnor - SMH)
Teachers' Digital Footprint- (Tuesday 2nd February 2010)
Teachers can use social networking to build a positive digital profile.
What is Moodle?- (Monday 2nd February 2010)
Making sense of the increasingly popular Course Managment System (CMS), which is finding favour in local schools using DER netbooks.
Julia Gillard: a political dill- (Monday 1st February 2010)
A no-holds-barred political analysis of Julia Gillard's role in the MySchool web site issue. (Bob Ellis - ABC)
Challenging our own paradigms?- (Monday 1st February 2010)
Is it time for teachers to re-think their position on the MySchool web site?
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