Jan
7
This is the tale of dealing with the frustration of an intermittent WiFi connectivity issue and finding a solution. It’s almost 5 years since we moved into our present house. Because I had been experimenting with WiFi Internet sharing using my iMac as a base station in our previous house I was confident we would [...]
Oct
1
Digital Literacy
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At the 29 July meeting of Academic Board there was discussion of a proposal to change the document describing qualities of a USQ graduate to include mention of digital literacy. I remember the discussion clearly because there was a proposal that digital literacy be replaced by technological literacy, against which I spoke on the basis [...]
May
22
Ignorance – curse or blessing for teachers?
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A couple of weeks ago, not long after the release of the Queensland Education Performance Review, I was engaged in conversation with some colleagues about the recommendations in the report. As teacher educators we shared concerns about the capabilities of some graduates and, while we recognise the problems inherent in graduating teachers with deficiencies in [...]
Mar
7
SITE 2009
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From 28 February – 8 March I travelled to Charleston, South Carolina, to attend the 20th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). With around 1100 delegates representing at least 40 countries, despite the global financial crisis this was still one of the best attended and the most international SITE [...]
Aug
19
That was a long break
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I did intend to take a break over the Christmas – New Year period of 2005-2006 but I also intended resuming after a few weeks. Somehow life became busier and time evaporated for a few weeks. Then, having lost the habit, it became easier not to try to resume – especially as I had a [...]
Dec
2
Will Richardson, whom I’ve always thought made good sense, has posted about a script for removing bad words from pages in Firefox. The script is available as a JavaScript file complete with the list of “bad words” in plain text. Talk about a great aid to education. Want to know what words are regarded as [...]
Nov
1
Web Collaborator
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Web Collaborator is yet another Web 2.0 tool for collaborative editing with versioning. It appears to be free and easy to start up. It offers the ability to import from HTML or Word and to export to Word or PDF, and it has a team discussion facility. (Via Moving at the Speed of Creativity.)
Oct
24
This, that and the other
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It’s Sunday night and I’m just now trying to pull together some thoughts about some things that I started reading on Friday night but have had to let wait because I had more pressing work and social engagements. Now I’m wondering how to make any sense of what is a very mixed bag of posts [...]
Oct
7
What Is Web 2.0? The view from O’Reilly
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A lot has been written about Web 2.0 in recent months but it is still a fuzzy concept in many ways. Tim O’Reilly, who was associated with the coining of the term, has published a substantial statement – What Is Web 2.0. He begins with some comments about the origin of the term: The bursting [...]
Oct
5
More new tools online
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The rate at which new tools, mostly online and free, are appearing seems to have ramped up recently. I’ve scarcely had time to register their existence and bookmark them. I’ve certainly not had time to try them all but many of them do seem to have some potential for teaching, learning and research online. Writeboard [...]