Cybersafety and Digital Footprints

Colleagues, If you are looking for some inspiration and resources for cybersafety, from Year 7 -12, I highly recommend Jenny Luca‘s presentations here. Jenny is the Head of Information Services at Toorak College, Mt.Eliza. She is @jennyluca on twitter, which she uses regularly to share and network with colleagues, nationally and internationally. I admire her work and [...]

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. [...]

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  

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 [...]

How do I use RSS feeds and Google Reader?

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ and helps you to save time by keeping up to date with the important updates at your favourite websites. Instead of you visiting each website, you just go to your Google Reader page where these updates will have been fed using an RSS feed. Confused? This blog post explains the [...]

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, [...]