Category Archives: Web 2.0

Remixing for Library 2.5

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Oh my, what a treat! On Wednesday morning at NECC a bunch of good teacher librarians gathered to present a panel session Feed, Tag, Research: Remixing for Library 2.5. I was the odd one out, having travelled a lot of air miles to attend the session with my colleagues. Between us we covered some key ideas, promotional strategies and a most definite 21st century learning focus.

I want to thank my friends Joyce Valenza, Carolyn Foote, Diane Cordell and Anita Beaman, for the opportunity to join them and provide an Australian view, voice, and focus on some initiatives.

Naturally this keen set of NECC Librarians wiki is there for you to browse!

I did a search for “NECC08”

in Tag Galaxy. Look what I found 🙂

How do we support teachers? – Symposium response

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Digital Education Revolution – provide your feedback!

In Australia we have the Australian Government Quality Teacher Program (AGQTP), which includes teacher quality and their impact on student outcomes. Considerable funding has been directed towards this. Rolling out a range of workshops in regional areas, as well as activities with professional associations. Also considering subject-specific standards and on-line professional learning resources.

Suggestions from the floor:

Portfolio of examplars at the national level. Podcasts as resource tools. Fund technology coaches for schools. Consideration for remote areas of Australia – and how to transfer information to regional and remote areas. Collaboration between various sectors. Use technology to assess literacy standards in national testing programs.

Responses to questions from the sessions:

If teachers don’t have time to do it all! Yet we are re-tooling our whole processes of education – the exploration is going to take time – and will make us more efficient and integrated in the end. Any organisation that is going through the process of transformation, will required us to commit. Our pedagogical knowledge has to change – technology can solve the pedagogical issues if we want it to. So bottom line – buy time to learn!

The key issue remains the need to establish collaborative environments. We have more knowledge than we can share with old technologies.  Sessions like this symposium should be streamed, so that educators can talk in the ‘back channell’ promoting the conversation.

Assessment should be a trust relationship between the educator and the student.  It’s a true social network in the making – information should be exposed and developed, and made transparent.  We need to focus on the social networking of education.

The 21st century classroom is a state of mind.  It’s a set of relationships between someone who wants to learn and someone who wants to teach. The relationship is around the transfer of learning.  Education is dead: long live learning!

Photo: Listening to the Stars

MySpace – a quick reflection

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MySpace, Facebook, Beebo – in fact all similar social networking sites are a ‘big’ topic of conversation amongst educators. The conversation more often than not revolves around filtering or blocking access to such sites at school. I am unhappy about being the ‘MySpace’ police – shouldn’t I and my fellow teachers be MySpace teachers instead? Here are a few words on the topic from Will Richardson.

The creative edge

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Creativity and innovation go hand in hand with a Mac. At the recent forum in Sydney with Will Richardson, it was clear to see that all the innovators there were fused to a Mac for creating their message and actualizing their inspiration. In fact, it got so people actually apologized for having a PC 🙂

Mac in front belongs to Chris Betcher (who’s taking the pic), next up, myself, Will Richardson and Westley Field, and in the background is Dean Groom.

Tells a story doesn’t it…bloggers, innovators, champions of change, creators of 21st century learning. Using a MAC of course!

reThink, reCreate, reEmpower

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For all those people attending the Syba Signs presentations in Brisbane and Sydney – the links to sites mentioned are available in the slideshare presentation below!

[A note to the conference attendees: I have been alerted that the slides have not uploaded well to slideshare this time. Some scrambled, some hyperlinks not showing etc. I am going to reformat and load up to slideshare before Friday’s session. In the meantime, some of the links are readable for your investigation. ][update- still having problems with slideshare. New version now, but some slides are still scrambled though the links do work. Will try again tomorrow]

Will Richardson talks!

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Will began his by reflecting on citizen journalism – media, skype, ustreamTV, live tv shows from basements – by kids who are just entering high school. Will is going to take a group of keen teachers and teacher librarians on a wonderfully weaved journey through the read/write web. Retire, and make more by selling ads on your blog than you did in your day job!

Will reflects on the transformation taking place that is as radical a change as that which took place as a result of the invention of the printing press.

Will is providing all the links to his presentation via his wiki http://willrichardson.wikispaces.com/.

Copyright? this discussion is now global. what do we do when content is free, easily copyable, and easily distributable. It’s a different place for business too. http://www.surfthechannel.com/ Pick up any TV show! anything you like. These guys are in Sweden, they don’t run servers – they don’t believe they are doing anything wrong 🙂

The story of Wikinomics is one that we all need to take note of. IBM has 24,000 blogs – they are sharing, collaborating, and being transparent about their jobs. Even governments are changing – there is a pressure for transparency,

But education, by and large, is not changing.

The How 2 of Web 2.0

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It’s 9.00 am and we are all looking forward to our day with Will Richardson! followed by a few good Aussies talking about Australian initiatives. Westley Field will enchant the audience with Skoolaborate; I will do my usual bit; and we’ll hear from Christine Mackenzie about the work at Yarra Pelnty Regional Library in Melbourne. The end of the day will have a panel discussion – which will be streamed to the world at 3.00 pm AEST via Will’s Weblogg-ed TV .

Yahoo for Teachers

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Something new to try out! Will this be one to watch? Like a Web 2.0 content management system – for your school, between schools, between you colleagues, and just sharing. Will this solve some problems for schools, or just create new ones? Check the Yahoo Teachers info page and register for your own beta invitation.

  • Top 100 Tools for Learning Activity

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    Between January and March 2008 the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies(C4LPT) invited learning professionals to share their Top 10 Tools for Learning – both for their own personal learning/productivity as well as for creating learning for others. 155 learning professionals contributed their Top 10 Tools. You can find the links to their individual Top 10 favourite Tools lists at www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/

    The Analysis of top 100 Tools  provides plenty of food for thought.

    In total over 460 different tools were named, but from these Top 10 Tools lists we compiled a list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008. 109 Tools were mentioned 3 or more times and an additional 34 tools were mentioned twice.

    The list appears on pages 3-10 of this document and also online at www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

    I’ve provided a copy of the document (top100s08) to all my staff! Or you may prefer to provide the Summary PDF link.