Top 100 Tools for Learning

Looking for tools to assist teachers to stay up to date and connect online? Jane Hart, using the input of learning professionals from around the globe, compiles a list of the top tools for learning each year. Jane is the CEO of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies based in the UK. I suggest you organise an RSS [...]

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 [...]

DPs blogging

Colleagues, It is with pleasure that I link to our colleague Michelle Sapsed’s first blog, Technology for school leaders on ‘p’ plates – for those who dream of being tech savvy  I am hoping that more DP blogs will appear on the right hand side of our association blogroll. Why don’t you post a comment [...]

Social Media Explained Visually

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

Are all your eggs in one basket?

A guest post by Ben Jones from the DERNSW team: A tale of the same meeting in two schools: School A: About 8 people are presented representing all levels within the school and regional support. Whilst there was an agenda with names allocated the flow of discussion naturally moved between various members of the team. [...]

blogED

Schools trialled blogED, a blogging tool soon to be available to all DET staff and students, during 2009 with great success. This tool will enable staff to quickly and easily establish blogs for each student, in every class, generated using ERN. There are extensive tutorials and good support is available, making this tool a great resource for students who have been [...]

How can the school help students to use social media safely?

Deputy principals regularly deal with conflicts that arise from misuse of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. There are countless useful sites about cybersafety and you are likely to already have many of these in your favourites, like Cybersmart, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation and Click. A great resource to assist your school with the important task of educating [...]

Delicious

Everyone knows the feeling of working on multiple computers -  work, home, their laptop – and not having their bookmarked, favourite websites available when they need them. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to save your favourites online, tag them for ease of reference and collaborate with colleagues by linking accounts. Here’s a [...]