Category Archives: Web 2.0 and Education

Use of web 2.0 technologies in education.

ShowYourself- Create A Widget of All Your Web 2.0 Identities for Your Blog

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Brett

This is a really simple site that helps you make a cool widget for your blog or myspace. Fill in your usernames to many popular web 2.0 websites, and it auto-generates a widget that you can paste right into your … Continue reading →

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Wiki Concerns

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Brett

Last year I had one of those incredible professional discoveries. I think these discoveries only come along once every few years. During my search last year for quality Professional Development I stumbled across the Education.au organisation. I had a chance … Continue reading →

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School 2.0 Project

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Brett

After taking some time this afternoon to look over some blogs that I have failed to keep up with I came across the School 2.0 Project. This looks like a great project with plenty of promise….  Worth keeping an eye … Continue reading →

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DSN – What is happening….

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Brett

So there are a number of great educational benefits in having students blog and engaging in educational DSN activities.  Many of us would agree that there are many ways in which we can engage students by using many of these … Continue reading →

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The Virtual Staff Room….

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Brett

There is a great new site that was past my way by Michael Cridland. The virtual Staff Room has started with 2 great podcasts all about ed tech, including some great interviews with a range of teachers. Some interesting issues … Continue reading →

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ACEC Day 2 Opening Session – Tales from the edge (Gerry White – Education.au CEO)

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Brett

I have always enjoyed the education.au presentations.  They have just launched a new site for edna.edu.au….  Not sure when it will be up live and active but it looks great.  It looks like it will be a great online portal … Continue reading →

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ACEC Prep Continues

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Brett

Sitting down at Starbucks (yes Dave Starbucks is in Australia) working away on the ACEC presentation.  Just came up with an interesting idea – Thanks to a comment from Dave Warlick.  I am working on a Podcast that goes through … Continue reading →

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ACEC Presentation – Your Thoughts?!?!

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Brett

I am placing some finishing touches to my ACEC presentation (Australian Computers in Education Conference). I have added some graphics here that I am using in my poster presentation to help explain some of the concepts of using Web 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Education AU Workshop (post 6 of 6) Annika Small

Posted on August 3, 2006 by Brett

How can digital technologies transform the way that people learn I apologise for spelling mistakes…. Blogging on the fly issomething new for me!!! I will play with these posts later tonight. This has been a great seminar…. One of the … Continue reading →

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Education Au Workshop (Workshop Post 5 of 6)

Posted on August 3, 2006 by Brett

Apparently the 2 guest speakers have allready had their session added to the educationau website. We are about to start a workshop session…. List changes and trends that we have noticed in our work and or private life that are … Continue reading →

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