OLMC Facebook Fan page update
Bright Ideas featured Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg Library’s Facebook Fan page three weeks ago. As most readers would know, Facebook has had some serious fallout due to privacy changes (or more to the point, lack of privacy) and…
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YouTube – Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) tags: socialmedia, social, youtube, media, web2.0, socialnetworking, collaboration, learning Social Learning: an explanation using Twitter Social Learning: an explanation using Twitter tags: social, twitter, web2.0, education, technology, tools,…
Spreading the word
Three new presentations on social media have become available in recent days and could be good to use for staff meetings or professional learning sessions to promote better understanding of social media and discussions on how it may enhance learning….
Upcoming free virtual conference events
There are some exciting web conferences scheduled next week for both teachers and students in the Virtual Conference Centre: * Switching on to Literacy – Blogging * Act 4 Nature with Zoos Victoria (Student Session – join in with your class!)…
World Cup resources
Thanks to Mark Warner’s site Teaching Ideas for collating a wide selection of World Cup teaching resources. Some of the resources include: games and apps videos display resources teaching ideas and resources photos links The list of resources will be…
Bookleads wiki
Joyce Valenza blogged about this terrific wiki a few days ago. Although her message was primarily about the book trailer resources, there’s a lot of other great stuff to be found! Resources on the wiki include: reading suggestion portals book…
Social Media Reading List for School Leaders
Hans Mundahl is an American “educator working in experiential learning and technology”. He has developed a YouTube video and accompanying wikis to build a remarkable resource for developing social media learning in schools. As his Social Medi Read List wiki…
Echuca College eLearning Wiki
eLearning coordinator Maryna Badenhorst has developed an amazingly useful wiki for Echuca College. Maryna explains how the wiki came about: As this is the first time that the teachers in the Year 7 Learning Neighbourhood in Echuca College will have…
Weekly links (weekly)
TakingITGlobal – For Educators / TIGed tags: globaleducation, global, education, curriculum, technology, collaboration, web2.0, elearning TakingITGlobal – Inspire. Inform. Involve. tags: global, collaboration, activism, takingitglobal, education, youth, web2.0, issues Futurelab – Projects – Digital Participation – videos tags: digital, videos,…
TakingITGlobal
As we know, students who can make a connection with their learning, are more likely to learn more. Things we are passionate about make the world of difference to the way we feel about learning. TakingITGlobal is a site that…
