Not long ago a colleague stated that “I now believe that the time has passed when they could make a choice. It’s too late for that - they must change or leave”

Reminds me of the analogy about doctors. Would you go to a Dr who hasn’t updated his practice in the last 10, 20, 30 years.  And now Mathew Needleman has made a little video to illustrate this point.
See what you think?

Al Upton is a teacher in South Australia who has had his class blog shut
down by the local government after one parent complained about his
programme where he was getting other edubloggers from around the world to mentor his class as writers. Here are some links by more knowledgeable people as this is being debated around the world in a variety of networks.

Vicki Davis Explains
The students in the class have been devastated and this is evident in their comments following the closure of their blogs. Listen to the words of the students

The power of blogs is in the collaboration by sharing ideas and helping each other in online communities.

Here you can listen to a UStream discussion by Alex Couros and Sue Waters. You may need to join Ustream to view this.

“It’s especially ridiculous because while all this was happening here in Australia, the TED conference was taking place in Monterey, California, where one of the speakers was Dave Eggers.  Eggers presented a talk about an amazing project where he has been connecting school kids with professional writers who volunteer their services for free to help kids with tutoring.  The project, called Once Upon a School, is absolutely awe inspiring and has spread to a number of other states now wanting to develop similar grassroots programs.” Chris Betcher

It’s Easter time and I have spent all day on twitter and following links. The people I tweet with are very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about using technology to enhance teaching and learning. This gives me the opportunity to learn from them and keep up to date with what other teachers and schools are doing with ICTs. I can then share this new learning with my cluster teachers and show them ways to integrate ICTs into classroom programmes. I have now installed twitterific which shows instant updates with a little tweet. It’s also useful when you want to find or know something, you just have to ask and a variety of replies will follow. So thanks twitterverse for all your help and support. And if you’re not a member, why not give it a try and build your own personal learning network

And now we are into team games which sounds like heaps of fun if I could decide what colour I would be

Welcome to my brand new blog at Edublogs.

I see this as my place to post my thoughts and ideas as I learn in my role as ICT facilitator. I encourage my teachers and students to keep blogs, share and collaborate online within their class and around the world.

Here I can share my new learning in ways that may encourage others to participate and collaborate.

So welcome to my place. Join in and share.

“School should be the best party in town.”