Posted by
Sue Waters on Saturday, October 18th 2008
Ashley (from the Student Blogging Competition) comment on what blogging means to her really says it all! And worthy of being WAY more than a comment!
Hope she doesn’t mind me turning it into a picture to put on my easel?
FINAL THOUGHT
Off course like all artists I’m always looking for inspirations for my easel. [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Wednesday, October 15th 2008
Today, 15 October, is Blog Action Day where the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters are encouraged to post about the same issue on the same day. This year the theme is Poverty.
The hope is by starting a global discussion we can all help bring about both personal actions and a raised awareness for global [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Saturday, October 4th 2008
In early September EDNA’s Blogging Corner’s forum debated the legalities of downloading YouTube videos because it’s a violation of YouTube’s terms of service to download.
So I was intrigued that Simon and Matthieu information on YouTube states that:
A copy of a YouTube video may be downloaded under section 28 of the Australian Copywrite act provided that [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Thursday, October 2nd 2008
I’m going to be doing a series of presentation on Personal Learning Networks (PLN) over the next few months. With these types of presentation I like to to demonstrate the importance of PLNs by asking my network to help me.
For my previous presentation I asked my readers a series of questions on PLN. [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Wednesday, October 1st 2008
I’m really enjoying reading blog posts written by Lina’s University students who are studying to be teachers. The students (in pairs) have to gain expertise in one innovative technology which they share with other students in a hour presentation and by documenting on the class wiki.
How they perceive the benefits/issues of each technology is not [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Sunday, September 28th 2008
Been feeling frustrated because my personal blog, Mobile Technology in TAFE, and The Edublogger look similar. Felt each blog needed it’s own unique feel so readers could easily tell them apart.
Then Anne Mirtschin commented that her third most ‘hit’ page/post is her ‘About page’. And my blogs? Second most ‘hit’ page/post on [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Friday, September 26th 2008
You’d think I’d know better after the 31 Days To Build A Better Blog and Comment Challenge but NO! Why? Because I know how much everyone benefits from these Challenges.
So when Miss Wyatt told me she had adapted the concept of these challenges to organised Blogging Competition specifically for student and class blogs I [...]
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Posted by
Sue Waters on Sunday, September 21st 2008
Perhaps I’m incredibly naive or stupid? I’d never in a million years thought any school would charge their students for the privilege to access the school’s Internet! Yet apparently this is the case.
During a lovely chat with Sue Tapp she casually said her biggest barrier to using web technologies with her students is they [...]
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