Friday, September 19, 2008

Check out this Map of Future Forces!

One of the links provided by our National Facilitator was this Map of future forces affecting education" Very interesting and well set out - worth a look!

Friday, September 12, 2008

Cluster website updated

I have just updated the cluster web site. More on curriculum ideas and links to our workshop for today. Please complete the survey!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Podcasting in our schools

Richmond Road School has Radio Richmond and Marist has Magic Marist, these are podcast broadcasts which are shared in the schools. Students run the broadcasts and share current happenings and learning experiences. You may like to listen to them.
Magic Marist
Radio Richmond

Head in the clouds

I have embedded the quintura search engine in the side menu, we have been using this at Marist School and St Josephs - a nice way for children to use a search engine - they also have a very visual kids one too - more suitable for juniors. I found an interesting article which was noted by Derek Wenmoth in his blog post. The article is in The New York Times and is about the notion of cloud computing - the link is http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=login