Lead Story
Constructivist learning alive and well in Second Life!
I recently came across this post by Jo Kay about the Second Life Virtual Classroom Project that began last year. It’s about the plans of an Australian history teacher, Annabel Astbury, who is creating a virtual learning space where visitors can learn about colonisation in the south east of Australia by interacting with the space to…
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News Items
All the latest Moodle news»
Having recently attended a Moodle conference in Brisbane, Moodle Moot ‘08, I thought I’d share my notes on some of the great presentations and sessions we attended…
Online photo sharing and back-up»
Do you use Flickr? Flickr is a great tool for backing up your photo’s and sharing them with your friends and family. It also integrates with Facebook, and many other tools… read on
Happy 1st Birthday to my blog!»
Today is my blog’s 1st birthday. April 18th. I can’t believe it’s been a year since I started this blog. It’s really quite amazing when I look back through all the entries…
Facilitation
LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Task 3»
So you have a blog! What now? What can you do with it? How could it be useful in Teaching and Learning or even social networking?
Reviews of the LearnScope Regional Event ‘07»
Regan Harding shares some of her thought provoking experiences with Youth at Risk and Generation Y students and the treasures within. While Kate Jones had a clear message, there’s no need to recreate the wheel, there are plenty of great media rich resources out there.
LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Task 2»
In these five short tasks, we’ll be exploring some of the techniques you can use to embed blogging into your work, engage your colleagues and your students…
Gen X & Y
Youth and Social Networking»
LearnScope Regional event focused on Youth and Social Networking in Education. Presentations came virtually via Adobe Connect and face to face. This resulted in some interesting discussion at lunch time about both the content and the delivery method.
Keep in touch with Generation Y!»
Ever heard of Urban Dictionary? I subscribe to the feed using netvibes to get the Gen Y word of the day… it doesn’t really help!
No more traditional classrooms in 2020…»
The UK government has pledged £45bn for a ‘Building Schools for the Future’ program. By 2020, they propose to rebuild every school in the country…
