Educational Origami

This week has been exciting and fun. ISNZ – independent schools of New Zealand held the annual conference for Heads, Bursars and boards in Wellington. This year had a different twist to the opening and closing keynote addresses.
The opening keynote was Martin Westwell of Flinders University. He was presenting to the conference on Nueroscience, education [...]

This is a neat addition to sky for windows (I know mac has had it for a while). The New skype 4.1 beta has screen sharing.

You can download the beta from here – http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/beta/
and the release notes are available in PDF format from here – http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2009/05/27/Skype%20Release%20Notes.pdf

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Thank you to every one who contributed to this. I really appreciate the comments and suggestions and I have tried to incorperate many of these in to this. Sections 5 & 6 are reworked and I hope are now more positve in there flavour.
I would appreciate any further comments and suggestions. Once this is settled [...]

This is a very good advertisement with an interesting message. It talks about Mobile technologies, expectation and raises questions for me about where is the future.
Its well worth watching
Here is the URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2Slxp0TkM

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Well I am back from the MYSA conference. The conference as an excellent Middle years conference and a good ICT conference. I am very pleased that the 10 year drought that has afflicted Brisbane has broken, but if I am honest I wish it could have broken after my visit.

For me the Keypoints were:
1. Visit [...]

This is one of the highlights of the conference. It was hugely enhanced because on Tuesday Proffessor Phillip Long hosted myself and my colleagues at the University of Queensland. We had the great privillage of touring the new learning spaces around the campus. This is my second visit to UQ and it was great to [...]

This was a presentation from Scotch College In Perth by their IT and MYP coordinator, Ben Beaton. Unfortunately the session was a tad slow or perhaps the presentation to full so only 2/3 rd of the presentation was completed. The interesting stuff – Scotch’s use of mobile tools was the part left out. The presentation [...]

I enjoyed this Keynote. Marco is a American educator, producer (Film), parent, politician etc. He started on a great high point by showing his Livescribe Pen (I have one they are sooooooo cool) and then in a rambling presentation discusses his view on education. A view I would like to say I mostly agree with.
Here [...]

The pre confernce workshop I booked into was Urban Outdoor education. The two presnters were a principal instructor/teacher from a state funded outdoor education facility and the DP at a local state school.
The session started by mirroring an activity they do with students. It involved:

briefing the students (us)
journeying to the location
doing the task
reviewing/debriefing

To start they [...]

A couple of posts ago I wrote about the digital citizen and citizenship. Well I have been working on this concept and I have created an acceptable use agreement based on the tenets of being a good digital citizen.
Here is the AUA, its based not on restrictions or technology rather on an ethical basis for [...]