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Nick Hodge is a professional geek and digital diplomat for Microsoft in 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.

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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 [...]

Education Feed: What I am Watching

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

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CQ + PQ + EQ > IQ
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Jimmy Wales: Fireside Chat

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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del.icio.us search for all blog posts from Jimmy's Trip
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, [...]

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 [...]