John Travers There has been much discussion in staff development circles about learning communities as a key basis for sustained school and staff learning, and the concept has be...
John Travers In investigating issues of staff capacity in using ICT for the SICTAS report a prominent issue is the mixed messages that teachers are receiving across the country regarding the pu...
I am involved in a national project (Strategic ICT Advisory Service - SICTAS) that includes researching the building of staff capabilities in the use of ICT in learning. This entry is the first in ...
The video below is a very short (1 minutee) overview of the sorts of things smart phones can do, making them potentially very powerful for school use. The example here is my beloved iPhone, but...
I have been using the social bookmarking service Diigo for a few weeks and am very impressed by it to the point that I have imported my delicious bookmarks into Diigo and have jumped horses in ...
This just released report from EU Commission staff is a down-to-earth and impressive report on progress in implementing ICT goals in education in the EU since the...
Leading a digital school , edited by Mal Lee and Michael Gaffney, published by ACER 2008 is a very useful collection of essays on the full range of issues related to this much ...
I was recently engaged in discussion about the weakening of newspapers in an internet world, and there was some talk about income and market effectiveness of online versus paper newspapers. The...
The graph below is a summary of the experience of a number of university students in using a range of common ICT tools. These students have chosen to do a topic on current technologies for ...
The icons on the main screen give a hint of what is to offer. From the top: Photos can be a large image collection, Camera is modes but effective - inserting images into your large pho...
Just before munching my vegemite toast this full page ad in The Australian caught my eye. It basically does nothing more than catch one's eye, provide minimal information about a dispute betw...
This entry is a bit about my interest in responding to climate change skeptics, but maybe just as important, to look at how one can quickly check the authenticity of views, using internet tool...
As the proud and doting owner of an iPhone for two weeks I can start to think of their potential for use as a learning device. The revoutionary aspect of the iPhone is that it is a work in prog...
This entry has two separate motivations: one is to explore a modest example of SRPL (see the title) involging me, and the other is to beat the drum about evidence for climate chang...
More and more evidence is piling up that simplicity is the key to successful design of tools, like those listed in the title. Another example is seen in iMovie 08, a simplification of Apple's...
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