Online Safety - More about the Key Concepts (5)

The report of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group has made an impact in the blog- and twitterspher.e.

... more on this topic

... still more on this topic

Something a little different, I like these videos, I may have mentioned them before ...

Just another short post, compiling others worthy thoughts.

Online Safety - More about the Key Concepts (4)

Julie Lindsay post on  personal information, privacy, digital citizenship and education.

Social networking and students: A bad mix? a short article from Inside the School

Some guidelines for employees using social networking sites.  A basic list, still covering most issues.

Guidance documents for school AUPs

Posts and articles on this topic are in increasing supply ... just as well, I say.

Such a complex issue.

Australian Curriculum - What is happening?

Find the latest on Australian curriculum here.

and a sidebar from the American scene: Common standards: from what to how - an extract from an Education Week article.

I am sure this topic will pop up again.

Leading Digital Learning Revolutions - Clarify the Focus (3)

Very diverse experiences and opinions from around the world are worth a think.


4 tips for integrating social media into the classroom.

Laptops in the classroom: Back row or front row? 

Districts want an app for that - laptops, handhelds, mobile devices.

At university some tools to enable collaboration.


I am sure, many more to,follow.

Communication: Content for Clarity and Correctness

Is spelling and grammar important?  I vote YES.

Steve Wheeler has interesting posts on writing rules, grammar and effective communication.

5 tips for making your presentation more social.  This Mashable post indirectly offers useful tips on communication.


Effective communication, is all!

Professional Learning - Opportunities to Engage with Change (2)

Many posts and articles can be put under this umbrella term.

Ben Jones has written a thought-provoking post - If we can't teach ourselves, who can we teach?

New York Times magazine on effective teaching ideas - as series of videos.

Worst practice in ICT use in education from the World Bank blog.

Being aware when caution is need-questions about online chat 

May be follow-up posts.

Reads, Feeds, Tweets - Am I Losing Interest?

Today, I remembered to look at my Google Reader. 

I was shocked to find 573 new items that I had not yet looked at.

Once, this would never have happened.

So what is the problem?

I have started to notice that with few exceptions, the same information is delivered through all the services I subscribe to.

What I read each morning on my google alerts, I see on Twitter and then I find it in my google feeds.

I am very disturbed that I have not checked my SlideShare saves for ages. I still believe it is one of the most useful tools out there and I notice how they are updating their service all the time.

That said, I mostly just follow tweets to SlideShare now.

That said, I think I will try to get back to SlideShare by next Sunday.  That is my challenge this week.

Another factor is that, I am in a corporate (education) environment, so now I do not have a direct audience with whom to share subject-related sites.  

I still do that sometimes on Twitter.

I like to follow various ed. tweeple and keep up with NSW education innovation.

Still, that niggling worry ... am I finally over it?