Yammer

Yammer is a microblogging service that has become popular with NSW DET staff in recent months as a great way of communicating with colleagues. Yammer is like Twitter, except, only people with the same employee email are networked together. In other words, you have to have a verified @det.nsw.edu.au address to join the NSW DET Yammer. [...]

How to use the ‘Conference Ning’

The neverending stream of silly names for excellent online tools peaks, for many of us, with the word ‘ning’. However, do not be fooled, a ning is an excellent tool for collaboration, especially for a conference delegate. At this particular style of social networking site delegates are able to interact before, during and after the conference. [...]

Paradigm

What follows is a ’Guest Post’ by Mark Treadwell, a keynote speaker at our last annual conference. — Test scores in maths, science reading and writing have remained largely unchanged for almost 50 years despite billions, if not trillions of additional dollars being poured into education. Why is that? Robert Branson suggests that we have reached [...]

Social Media Explained Visually

more about “Social Media Explained Visually“, posted with vodpod  

Web 2.0 and the Social Media Revolution

What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is a term often used to describe the current state of the internet. It is important that educators understand the term and can lead and collaborate online using Web 2.0 tools. A great explanation of this concept, coined by Tim O’Reilly, can be found here. Youtube, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, in fact, [...]

Welcome!

This blog is intended to be a source of information about learning and collaborating in a digital world for deputy principals in NSW! Each week, or at worst, fortnight, there will be a brief, easily digestible post, that explores a practical application of digital technologies for educational leaders. You will see on the righthand side toolbar of this [...]