June 2010 Blog Posts (13)

I talked about the Science Leadership Academy briefly at this year's Innovation Showcase.

The Science Leadership Academy is a partnership high school between the School District of Philadelphia and The…

Lynette Barr was an inspiring presenter who spoke about her classroom use of digital learning. This included the use of an interactive whiteboard, netbooks, gaming and other online tools etc with her grade 6 class. Lynette shared a valuable document outlining what her reading block looked like.…

I have just finished reading Jeff Utecht's Reach: Building Communities and Networks for Professional Development.

Jeff Utecht is an international educator working at the International School of Bangkok who I have been following on twitter for some time. (He…

Something that I am currently reading is the OECD Innovation Strategy: Getting A Head Start On Tomorrow.

The report provides analysis and policy guidance on a broad range of issues from education and training to business environment, infrastructure and actions to foster the creation and diffusion of knowledge. It…

Recordings of the many and varied presentations from the 2010 Innovation Showcase are now available. If you did not have the opportunity to attend the Showcase you will still find the videos and podcasts engaging, and the supporting files include the powerpoints or videos that were shown.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/researchinnovation/showcase/showcase2010.htm…

In The World Is Open, educational technologist Curtis Bonk explores ten key trends that together make up the "WE-ALL-LEARN" framework for understanding the potential of technology's impact on learning in the 21st century:

• 1. Web Searching in the World of e-Books
• 2. E-Learning and Blended…

Techno Parents Online in Elluminate

Our goal

To offer three online elluminate sessions over a three week period to parents of students who are part of our 1:1 netbook program.

Our approach

• Three weekly sessions were held online, on a Monday evening from 7:30-8:30pm.
• An initial face to face meeting was held with…

• Jigsaw - for Upper Primary/Middle School…

Claire Bloom presented on an inspiring topic of breaking borders with Web2.0. I recently met Claire at the recent Innovations Showcase, sat through her session and enjoyed it very much. Soon after, I met her online in a web conference leaders' elluminate session. Claire asked me what should be done if everything went pear shaped! Well, that is exactly what happened this afternoon, when the links I tweeted, did not seem to work for those who wanted to join. Those issues were resolved, and…