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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us
Whether you love it or hate it, it is us and we are it - Web 2.0. Welcome to the future.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Kids Prefer Reading Online
The unending debate over whether or not reading on the Internet is “really” reading gets played out once again in this New York Times piece titled “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” It’s the story of a “typical” family where the kids are online some six hours a day reading and writing at FanFiction.net among other places.
Read the whole thing. All in all, it’s a pretty interesting back and forth between old readers and young, and the bottom line is that it’s obvious that’s it’s something we need to be thinking of as we think about reading curricula and pedagogy.
Read the whole thing. All in all, it’s a pretty interesting back and forth between old readers and young, and the bottom line is that it’s obvious that’s it’s something we need to be thinking of as we think about reading curricula and pedagogy.
Friday, June 27, 2008
del.icio.us
I have used del.icio.us for a while. It is a social bookmarking site where you can keep all your bookmarks in one place, share them with family, friends and colleagues and check out what other people are bookmarking.
I have set up an account for the library that I use to help our users. Feel free to visit Emmaus Library’s bookmarks on del.icio.us. I have tagged sites about studying, the HSC, literary awards and the web. There is a link to it from our school library homepage, which you can access via Emmaus Online. The students also have access to this.
In the future, if you want me to locate Internet sites for year group assignments I will put these on del.icio.us.
I have set up an account for the library that I use to help our users. Feel free to visit Emmaus Library’s bookmarks on del.icio.us. I have tagged sites about studying, the HSC, literary awards and the web. There is a link to it from our school library homepage, which you can access via Emmaus Online. The students also have access to this.
In the future, if you want me to locate Internet sites for year group assignments I will put these on del.icio.us.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Miles Franklin Literary Awards
The winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award is Steven Caroll for 'The Time We Have Taken'. The short list was as follows:
If you want some quality Australian literature to read over the holidays, mayybe read the winner or one of his competitors.
| The Fern Tattoo | David Brooks | University of Queensland Press |
| The Time We Have Taken | Steven Carroll | Fourth Estate (HarperCollins Publishers) |
| Love Without Hope | Rodney Hall | Picador (Pan Macmillan Australia) |
| Sorry | Gail Jones | Vintage (Random House Australia) |
| Landscape of Farewell | Alex Miller | Allen & Unwin |
If you want some quality Australian literature to read over the holidays, mayybe read the winner or one of his competitors.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The How 2 of Web 2.0
After I attended the "Blogs, Wikis and other Web Tools' seminar I enrolled in The How 2 of Web 2.0 online learning program, which started this week. Unlike a traditional inservice or training it is all done online and is proving to be both interesting and fun. Check out the original Learning 2.0 blog. Maybe it will inspire you to start learning.
I am also extremely interested in passing my learning on to you. Is anyone interested in learning about blogging or getting their class involved? Maybe your students need to journal their learning - a blog would be a perfect tool for them.
I am also extremely interested in passing my learning on to you. Is anyone interested in learning about blogging or getting their class involved? Maybe your students need to journal their learning - a blog would be a perfect tool for them.
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