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6 Steps to Add Voice Comments to Google Docs ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Inspired by Finland – 5 Goals I’m Setting Now « Penn-Finn Learnings 2013
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Global Education Leaders' Program |
The Global Education Leaders’ Program is a community of key education system leaders, policy-makers, thought-leaders and world-class consultants collaborating to transform education at local, national and international levels. The aim of these transformations is to equip every learner with the skills, expertise and knowledge to survive and thrive in the 21st century.
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Teaching and learning – maximising our investment in Australian schools
Released May 2013
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Foundation for young Australians - what students think needs to happen in education
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Flat Classroom Project 13-1 - Awards
The results from the Flat Classroom Project 13-1 of multimedia Awards Ceremony
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Teach Less! Learn More! » Blog Archive » I Love Book Creator App – Part 1
Heather Davis @toadie1951 shares Book Creator for iPad as a tool for elementary level.
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GLOBALCOLLABORATORSNETWORK - home
Another active network of educators implementing global opportunities for their students
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Dear School, tear down those walls! #flatclassroom | Ignorant Schoolmaster
E-Learning Journeys
Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Flat and Connected Learning: A Recipe for Success
My proposition today, and for many years past, is that learning is 'flat' and has to be 'flat'. Learners need to connect themselves to networks, many networks, and learn from and with the immediate as well as wider world. I am talking about a change in mindset, a shift in pedagogy and an essential purpose for the integration of technology across the curriculum - including mobile computing.
Three Ingredients to Flatten Your Classroom
1. Connection - (Connected Learning)
- Connect yourself, connect your school, connect your students
- Develop habits and a daily workflow that includes regular interactions and opportunities to learn with and from
- Do not be confined by the synchronous! Develop strategies for asynchronous connections and conversations
- Use 'Pull' technologies such as RSS, blogs, social bookmarks and smart search engine use to pull information to you so you know what is going on, when it happens
- Become a teacherpreneur! Find opportunities through your PLN and bring them to your students and your school. A teacherpreneur is a teacher who sees an opportunity to make a profitable learning experience for students through the forging of partnerships with other classrooms with common curricular goals and expectations
- Make virtual connections, and participate virtually in global events
- Develop a strategy for curriculum development and refer to the Taxonomy for Global Connection to support embedding connected learning into what you do every day
2. Citizenship - (with a splash of global competency)
- Although technology is used in communication, digital citizenship is still squarely about relating to people
- Promote discussions about individual digital identity – including for older students and adults Personal Branding
- Be aware of the Enlightened Model of Digital Citizenship that includes: Five areas of awareness: technology, individual, social, cultural, and global – for framing analysis of online situations; and Four key “rays” of understanding: Safety, Privacy, Copyright, and Legal; Etiquette and Respect; Habits of Learning; and Literacy and Fluency
- Develop a powerful digital citizenship curriculum - and encourage global competency. It is not all about the hardware and software, it is about how you can learn more about the world supported by the use of technology
3. Collaboration - (the sort that includes co-creation)
- If collaboration is a needed 21st Century skill (are there any standards that do not include this?), educators need to not only teach it but to employ and model it as well
- Develop educational approaches to social learning
- Develop technopersonal skills for both synchronous and asynchronous learning
- Move towards co-creation of products with others at a distance
The Recipe
Do you want to learn more about 'Flat' learning? Do you want to embed global collaboration into your curriculum>
- Join Julie Lindsay in San Antonio, June 20-21 at the International School of the Americas (just before ISTE 2013!) for the next Flat Classroom Workshop - Yes! there are places available - and discounts for groups of 4 or more educators
- Join the Flat Classrooms network and find like-minded educators
- View Julie's ECIS IT Conference 2013 Keynote slides - 'FLAT'
Cross-posted with Around the Corner, Miguel Guhlin
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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The Teacher's Guide To Google Glass | Edudemic
tags: tgstech_ubiq tgstech_learning education Google wearabletechnology
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Qatar Academy teachers fret as former colleague jailed over alleged insults to Islam | Doha News
A not so good story about international teaching. This is the school I was IT Director in for 2 years. A reminder that education for cross-cultural understanding needs to be applied for all ages.
tags: culturalawareness education
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Teachers Vie for Overseas Postings - NYTimes.com
A reasonable article written about international schools and teaching jobs. Interesting how the number of schools has increased in the past 15 years, and how as the less well-off countries become wealthier (eg China) they want their children educated in English. Lots of opportunities for teachers in many places.
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3-D Fantasty Game Sparx Helps Treat Teens' Depression:... | Stuff.co.nz
tags: games education digitalcitizenship
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tags: digitalcitizenship education
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Great Pinterest!
tags: digitalcitizenship education
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ExamiNation: a short documentary on Vimeo
ExamiNation is a short documentary film about the notorious South Korean college entrance exam, Sooneung (수능). Can one exam dictate a culture and lifestyle in a country?
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The Digital Lives of Teens: Code Switching | Edutopia
Interesting writing about how teachers can share the narrative with students - how to include and embrace opportunities to learn with technology at school .....most of this seems obvious to some of us...?
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Blogging in the 21st-Century Classroom | Edutopia
tags: blogging education 21stcenturylearning tgstech_learning
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Reflecting on the Flat Classroom Conference Yokohama, 2013 | On an e-Journey with Generation Y
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tags: education programming code
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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tags: education customization
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Interesting decision made by Maine to go with HP rather than Apple next year.
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"One of the best services Google+ provides to its users is called " communities ". Any Google Plus user can easily create and host his/her community on the cloud and in a matter of few clicks.For us in education we can use this service to create a community for our class. In this virtual space, you will get to share with your students resources, links, and also get them to participate and contribute in it. You can also create class events with dates, location, and more details and share them with your students and their parents as well. Needless to say that you can use Google Hangout right from your community to hold video conferences with your students."
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tags: digitalcitizenship education
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Love the way this approaches the selection of iPad apps from a learning first perspective
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@langwitches, Silvia Tolisano reviews the wonderful book written by @kathycassidy for elementary level classrooms to being connecting with the world. Excellent review! Excellent book!
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Socrative is a free classroom response system that runs on the web, iPhone and iPad, allowing teachers to do realtime polling and quizzing of students. I love the way Thinking Routines 9harvard) can be integrated with it.
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I love how David Truss has set this out so clearly and shares 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom 1. Inquiry 2. Voice 3. Audience 4. Community 5. Leadership 6. Play 7. Networks
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David Truss is a colleague and innovative leader now based in Vancouver and Principal of the Inquiry Hub. . I love hearing about how he is implementing inquiry learning across the curriculum! Would love to visit this school one day!
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"One More Story is an online library of the best of classic and contemporary children's literature. Our site makes books accessible to pre-readers and early readers so that they can engage in and enjoy literature."
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A PD document written for educators in 2002 about the digital portfolio process.
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Reviewing the Common Sense curriculum for digital citizenship. There is something for everyone in here.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Digital Portfolio Journey - A story of change in an online world
In 2002, as part of my Masters degree in Educational Technology Leadership at the George Washington University, I completed a subject called 'Digital Portfolios'. There was no going back! I was totally engaged and driven to create and maintain an online portfolio. I was also totally driven to share my knowledge with others.
My first digital portfolio was created using Dreamweaver - yes, can you believe it...there was no access to Web 2.0 tools back then. So, I did my apprenticeship with HTML and tools where you had to start from nothing. EVERYTHING had to be built from the ground up. In many ways this gave incredible freedom, and of course this can be done the same today - but not many of us bother anymore when templates and other site genreation tools are so easy to use!
This first digital portfolio was housed on a server in Perth (of all places) and I bought the domain name 'lindsayonline.net'. I maintained the portfolio and domain until about 2007. I was delighted to find it all intact via the WayBackMachine, which is a tool available through archive.org. Viewing my old portfolio again I am amused at the design (green and red?), the navigation (I think I did a good job here!) and effects (yeah! rollovers were so cool in those days! - go to the site to see what I mean), and the general 'clunkiness' of the site. However, I still love the theme I developed with the metaphor of 'the four parts of the body'. I explain this on the 'About this portfolio' page.
Here is the essential outline of the metaphor I used:
- Thinking: This is representing the areas that have required more cognitive input such as my portfolio rationale, educational philosophy statement and artifact reflections.
- Being: This is purely the section where I get to the 'heart' of the matter with an outline of my interests and family.
- Reaching Out: This section shows the work I do along with other people such as teachers, colleagues, parents, students. It is aimed at showing my contributions to education in and out of the classroom.
- Making Tracks: Finally, where I have been and a hint at where I want to go. My education and experience are outlined as well as professional development participation.
In about 2007 I let this original portfolio drop in favour of my NEW portfolio platform -Wikispaces! Yes, I loved and still love Wikispaces.com as a platform for sharing content, and of course for collaborative work. So my next portfolio took advantage of the ease of creation using a wiki platform. I also used PB Wiki to share presentations and workshop material....so spread my content across two platforms. This wiki portfolio has not been updated since May 2012 - the same month I made a decision to rebrand myself as I moved from being in a school and in a classroom to consultancy.
My most recent digital portfolio is also my company and my latest branding, Learning Confluence. It is an attempt to share my professional activity in an organised and visual/multimedia enhanced way so that colleagues and prospective employers can easily see what I am able to do and what I have done. This portfolio uses Wordpress as a platform, and I have a new domain name and new server hosting space.
Challenges with portfolio development over the years:
- Updating! Looking at Learning Confluence again today it is about 3 months out of date...again. This is an ongoing challenge to focus on updates and 'What's new' sections for regular or current viewers
- Balancing artifacts with reflections/responses - This is something I always emphasise when sharing portfolio development with others - but may not be something I am so good at myself EXCEPT I have kept a regular blog for many years, and this is the main reflective part of my learning. It is very important though for portfolio development to include critical responses to artifacts in some form
- Changing platforms and losing work - Yes! Over 10+ years and across 3 platforms there have been some things 'lost', but with WayBackMachine most of the old material is still there. Yeah! I was even delighted to find the PDF file of the Digital Teaching Portfolios course I put together and presented at a major PD event in Kuwait still online! Downloading now and storing in clouds for future reference....I know I probably have this somewhere on a hard drive backup.....
Also around 2003 as part of my course I created my own Learning Management System (LMS) and called it The Hub. I set it up as a sub-domain of lindsayonline.net. The WayBackMachine is showing a lot of what was there - not all - but enough to get the idea that this was an online portal for both teachers and students to learn and interact and share together. I piloted this with my Grade 9 class in Kuwait - had to get parent permission etc - and ran assignments through this, including The Hub discussion forum, using a PhP platform (still a very relevant way to set up forums I think). Anyway, it was an exciting time to be doing this - and of course today, more than 10 years later, with ELGG and other tools we have greater fluidity and mobility and access to multimedia - but we continue to be challenged as to the best way to develop those crucial conversations and interactions and sharing via an online format......
Thanks for sharing this journey with me via this blog post. I encourage you to reflect on their own professional digital portfolio journey and respond to this post with your portfolio history!
This blog post is cross-posted with THINK Global School teachers in Spot.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Education World Forum film 2013 - A Global Education Conversation - YouTube
Long (about 12 min) but diverse comments and opinions from across the globe from education ministers and other education leaders about what education is today.
tags: viralvideo education futureofeducation 21centurylearning global
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Teacher Education Students Take Part in Global Conference in Japan | Going Places
Students of @ebrownorama share their experiences presenting virtually at the flat Classroom Conference, japan this year.
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Education Is My Life | How to See the Leader in Each Student
tags: leadership student education
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Challenge Based Learning Keynote for Slide2Learn 2013
Jane Ross from Sinarmas World Academy
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All About Apps (Infographic) | Fluency21 – Committed Sardine Blog
tags: apps research infographic education
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The 8 Elements Project-Based Learning Must Have | Fluency21 – Committed Sardine Blog
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Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World
Free book download from the Asia Society
tags: globalcompetence globaleducation education globalcollaboration
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Five Big Changes to the Future of Teacher Education | MindShift
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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New Survey Uncovers Big Trends In Online Learning | Edudemic
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 7 Key Ingredients in the successful 21st Century Classroom
"What we are missing in education is not the resources -- but the creativity to make the most of the resources we have."
tags: 21stcenturylearning 21stcenturyclassroom education vickidavis
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Listen to @coolcatteacher on BAM radio. Most recent program talks to @flatclassroom teachers about global collaboration
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UNESCO Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning | eLearning
"The “Policy guidelines for mobile learning” developed by UNESCO seek to help policy-makers better understand what mobile learning is and how its unique benefits can be leveraged to advance progress towards Education for All. UNESCO believes that mobile technologies can expand and enrich educational opportunities for learners in diverse settings. Yet most ICT in education policies were articulated in a pre-mobile era and they do not seek to maximize the learning potentials of mobile technology. The rare policies that do reference mobile devices tend to treat them tangentially or ban their use in schools. Today, a growing body of evidence suggests that ubiquitous mobile devices – especially mobile phones and, more recently, tablet computers – are being used by learners and educators around the world to access information, streamline administration and facilitate learning in new and innovative ways. Developed in consultation with experts in over 20 countries, UNESCO’s “Policy guidelines for mobile learning” have broad application and can accommodate a wide range of institutions, including K–12 schools, universities, community centres, and technical and vocational schools."
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#BeyondLaptops 2013 Inspirational Videos - YouTube
All the videos played at the Beyond Laptops gathering at Yokohama International School April 2013
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If students designed their own schools... - YouTube
A one-semester program where students design their own learning. Inquiry-based, student driven. Has great potential for 'passion' based learning and connecting with the world - allows time for creativity and co-creation Includes time for team work and personal endeavours
tags: design viralvideo learning education futureofeducation tgstech_learning pedagogy flatclassroom creativity
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1-to-1 Essentials Program | Common Sense Media
A new set of resources provided by Common Sense Media for schools rolling our 1:1.
tags: 1:1 vision planning futureofeducation mobilelearning education tgstech_learning
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TEDxCreativeCoast - McGrath Davies - The Future Will Not Be Multiple Choice - YouTube
Young students and designing - great real examples from a teacher in the classroom
tags: viralvideo creativity design education tgstech_learning
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Reviewing HZ12k-12, knowing that the 2013 version is about to be released any day now!
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The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project | Off Book | PBS - YouTube
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14-Year-Old Prodigy Programmer Dreams In Code - YouTube
tags: viralvideo prodigy education
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"Big Picture Learning believes that high school graduates must know how to reason, problem-solve, and be active members of the community. At Big Picture Learning schools, there is no canon of information that all students must know. In a world where available information is growing exponentially, we believe that the most important thing a student needs to know is how to learn. Integral to the Big Picture Learning design are our five Learning Goals, a framework for looking at concepts, skills, and abilities and help guide the creation of personalized student curriculum."
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thefishbowl - Apps in Education
KIS share their approach to apps in education for the iPad in the classroom
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open learning spaces: Breakthrough time (and space)
"linking pedagogy and classroom design"
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Building Bridges between students and teachers
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7 Tips for Effectively Managing Your iPad Classroom - iPads in Education
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iPad Resources - Technology Integration for Teachers
Links to numerous communities and resources that share information about ipad resources and apps
tags: ipads reseources education apps
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50 Fab Apps for Teachers | Scholastic.com
Downloadable pdf file to share
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FCCT 13-1 Video Project - Learning analytics
Dottie creates an informative video about the use of learning analytic tools across different disciplines and age levels.
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Wearable Technology- The Story - Flat Classrooms
Excellent video create by Maureen Tumenas as part of the 'Flat Classroom Project for Teachers'. Historical overview of wearable technology and a review of real world scenarios for use.
tags: fcct13-1 wearabletechnology flatclassroom collaboration education
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Changing the Conversation: Youth and Social Media
An excellent list of resources shared via this blog post.
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Scribblitt - Make Your Own Book - Kids Self Publishing
tags: Web2.0 education publishing
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Announcing Wikispaces Classroom
Great upgrade for Wikispaces!
tags: wikispaces education collaboration
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Leaders globally share their ideas via the GET Ideas website
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ACCELN Hanging out for Professional Learning - YouTube
This hangout organised by Amanda and Roland while some of us were at GAFE Brisbane last week, talks about how to run a hangout - tips, tricks and curriculum objectives.
tags: google hangout education pedagogy virtual connectingpeople
Friday, April 19, 2013
Reviewing a tool for writing support - Grammarly
The opportunity to review Grammarly came across my desk this morning, so I thought I would share this with you. Disclaimer: I have never been a big fan of tools like turnitin.com but have acknowledged the need for something like that at a certain academic level as a check and balance.
I experimented with Grammarly by copying and pasting from a blog post I wrote recently. You can also upload files.
The results are shown below in the screenshot below. Here are some brief observations:
Good:
- It recognised I stole the text from online, and from my blog - funny it did not find the getideas.org website where this was originally posted....
- It has picked up some glaring grammatical errors - and made me cringe at my 'blogging' writing style, thinking I will need to improve this to be able to write in a more academic way more consistently (was that a good sentence??)
- It is not happy with NETS.A - cannot recognize this format - hence at least one punctuation error listed because of this
- It is not happy with other capitalised proper nouns or acronyms eg GetIdeas
Having this tool available BEFORE submitting work is an excellent support for the learning process. However the learner also needs to learn how to work with the tool to maximise this benefit.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Exploring 'thinking routines' in more depth.
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Interesting prototype tool for assessing pupils' creativity in schools. Includes categories of - imaginative, inquisitive, persistent, collaborative, disciplined.
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Recording from November of the ACCE Learning Network hangout where Vicki and Julie were interviewed about Flat Classroom
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Mark Wagner's workshop resources from the Google apps for Educators summits
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tags: education techintegration
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My workshop at the Brisbane Google Apps for Educators Summit this week on the Sunshine Coast. Workshop material found here: http://learningconfluence.wikispaces.com/Collaboration+Concept+Power+Magic
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tags: education leadership




