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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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Al Upton and the miniLegends

Microsoft is spon­sor­ing The Extraordin­ary Every­day Lives Show on The Pod­cast Net­work for 6 epis­odes as an exper­i­ment, and I really like the format that Uncle Dave Wal­lace and Uncle Mike Sey­fang have cre­ated.
Epis­ode 044 is with South Aus­tralian Teacher, Al Upton, on the Order for Clos­ure for his miniLe­gends blog. I fear that process […]

Mahi-Mahi

Ok, so this kid gets PR from the school after copy­ing not Wike­pe­dia, but Myth­busters (Screened epis­ode 11, sea­son 1)
C’mon teach­ers: mod­ern pop-culture is not defined by merely “the inter­nets”.
Oh, and a big thanks to Sue Waters: the per­son with the best job title I know of: Aquacul­tur­al­ist. Evid­ently, Mahi-mahi are smart fish.

CQ + PQ + EQ > IQ">CQ + PQ + EQ > IQ

Laurel Pap­worth has some inter­est­ing com­ments on generation-Y (digi-kids) and the dis­con­nec­ted nature of our cur­rent gov­ern­ments. Laurel’s post ref­er­ences this art­icle in the Sydney Morn­ing Her­ald (Laurel: the reason why Fair­fax doesn’t believe in the long tail is that it hasn’t worked out its busi­ness model yet)
Hav­ing spent two days with a selec­tion of […]

URLs for Victorian Principal’s Conference

Wikipedia.org. Ensure your school is in Wiki­pe­dia. Under­stand the social aspects of Wikis, and the rules related to Wiki­pe­dia entries.
Microsoft Breathe Life. Microsoft Australia’s start­ing point for Edu­ca­tion.
linkedin.com. Pro­fes­sional Social Net­work­ing. Start here.
Live.com search (Advanced search fea­tures) Use the Advanced fea­tures of search to ego-surf.
flickr.com. Social shar­ing of pho­tos with folk­sonomy tag­ging
del.icio.us Search blogs, user-created tags for […]

Education Feed: What I am Watching

This is a pub­lic feed of what I am watch­ing in the Edu­ca­tion Technology space.

Jimmy Wales: Fireside Chat

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The fol­low­ing is a blog-best-effort tran­script of Jimmy Wales in Mel­bourne on the 27th April 2007. This is not a ver­batim tran­script. This post is purely a tran­script of the con­ver­sa­tion, not the opin­ion of the author.
This blog post, and Flickr images […]

Jimmy Wales: Panel Discussion

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The fol­low­ing is a blog-best-effort tran­script of Jimmy Wales in Mel­bourne on the 27th April 2007. This is not a ver­batim tran­script.
This blog post, and Flickr images are licensed under the Cre­at­ive Com­mons License:

This
work is licensed under a
Cre­at­ive Com­mons Attri­bu­tion 2.5 Aus­tralia License.
After-lunch Panel Dis­cus­sion
Gary intro­duces Mark […]

Jimmy Wales: Challenging How Knowledge is Created.

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The fol­low­ing is a blog-best-effort tran­script of Jimmy Wales in Mel­bourne on the 27th April 2007. This is not a ver­batim tran­script.
This blog post, and Flickr images are licensed under the Cre­at­ive Com­mons License:

This
work is licensed under a
Cre­at­ive Com­mons Attri­bu­tion 2.5 Aus­tralia License.
Garry Put­land: wel­come. Apple might […]

Big Day in Queensland

A big thankyou to Scot Stein­hardt, Prin­cipal of Mount Gravatt High School. He runs a tight ship, and had a big day yes­ter­day with “big names” arriv­ing from all corners of Aus­tralia to get some of his time.  Thanks, Scot. And live that dream!
To all the teach­ers who atten­ded and answered my ran­dom ques­tions. Thanks.
Also, […]

ICT Day April 2007">Notes: Mount Gravatt ICT Day April 2007

Web 2.0: needs extra work to map to teach­ing out­comes (del.icio.us, flickr) Many Web 2.0 sites still blocked by policy. It makes it dif­fi­cult to use all the cool web 2.0 stuff in school, espe­cially when these tools will be used by the stu­dents for pro­ject deliv­ery. Think a mashup as a pro­ject handin. (cool!)
If […]