The ICTEV Conferencee 2007 + some new tools for mapping

A new posting of Wozcast 15, due to problems with the original posting.

A look at some of the essential tools in software that I've been using over the last couple of years; what I put on my new laptop when I got it!

Day 3 of the VITTA (Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association) Conference at Flemington Racecourse on Nov 22, 2006, including talk about SENSIS, SENSEI, safe searching, online learning platform 'Study Wiz', the Heathmont College ipodagogy project, more on The Learning Federation digital objects (2.5GB and growing) and the poor state of fraud-band speeds in Australia.

And Launchy! My new favourite thing.

The Curriculum Corporation's 13th Annual Conference: The vision splendid: ICT: Research, Pedagogy and Implementation for Schools. This conference was held in Adelaide early in August 2006.

This podcast talks about some of the sessions I attended, particularly:

Effective integration of dynamic representations and collaboration to enhance mathematics and science learning by Jeremy Roschelle, Director of the Centre for Technology in Learning at SRI International.

Evaluating the Learning Federation’s online curriculum content: implications for teaching and curriculum by Professor Peter Freebody, Professor of Education at University of QLD.

Are video games good for learning? by Professor James Paul Gee, Teacher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Searching for disruptive pedagogies: Matching pedagogies to the technologies by Professor John Hedberg, Millennium Innovations Chair in ICT and Education and Director of the Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre at Macquarie University.

There’s also a brief mention of a new edublog I like by Graham Wegner called Teaching Generation Y

The Wonderful World of Wikis: what are they, and why you might want to use on in the classroom as well as some wiki engines compared and contrasted.

Tablet tools compared: OneNote, EverNote, Go Binder and another look at audio editing software with SONY Acid Express 5.0, Adobe Audition 2.0 and good ol' Audacity. Recorded June 12, 2006