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Entries from November 18, 2008

What is the way ahead???

November 18, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I have been doing a lot of reading (Julia Aitken, Jamie McKenzie and Mark Treadwell for three) as I try to get my head around just what is the best way to respond to the needs of schools as we attempt to respond to today’s learners and today’s (or should that be tomorrow’s?) issues. At [...]

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It really is different you know!

November 8, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Just recently I bought a new computer with a TV card and a decent video card, which I connected to my lounge room TV (via cables under the floor, it doesn’t dominated the lounge room at all). This is, as you can read in lots of places, one of the new frontiers!! “Harnessing your vast [...]

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Rudd’s Rollout in Action

November 8, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I visited CBHS Liverpool (Matt Wells is the guy running the ICT things there)  and Patrician Brothers’, Fairfield (James McFarland here) today because I wanted to get a feel for how the rollout was going on the ground. Both these schools have chosen macs; both used the CEO image and the kids have Adm rights; [...]

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