CMIS Evaluation Technology Focus

Gary Hayes [PersonalizeMedia blog] created this embeddable Flash app which demonstrates how active & dynamic the Social Web is. Watching the numbers scroll ever-upward reinforces the rapid growth and change happening in online social communication.

Use the links for ’social media’, ‘mobile’ and ‘games’ at the top of the application window to view the number of new social media counts recorded since you clicked on the link.

And speaking (or should that be blogging…?) about social media… the CMIS Fiction Focus twitter account @cmisevalff now has over 100 followers?  Readers of this blog may like to participate in some simple social networking via two new CMIS twitter accounts: CMIS Primary Focus @cmisevalpf and CMIS Technology Focus @cmisevaltf.

Want to know more ?

The Professional Learning Institute and Leadership Centre is offering a great opportunity for educational leaders to lean more about ‘Effective Leadership through Technology’.
Internationally recognised educators  Sheryl-Nussbaum-Beach and Steve Hargadon will be in Perth for a one day event on the 20 November 2009. The day will start with a dual breakfast presentation; Steve Hargadon   ‘School 2.0: Where We’re Headed and What to Do About It’ and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach – ‘Effective School Leadership through Technology: The 21st Century Administrator’. A breakfast presentation will be followed by your choice of workshop with either Steve or Sheryl.

To download the promotional flyer, click here.

Teams from around the world are participating in the 
World Solar Challenge
aiming to drive from Darwin to Adelaide using the power of the sun.

This year’s entrants include vehicles from two WA high schools –  Willeton and Leeming.
Currently Willeton’s Solar Flair is ranked 10th and Leeming’s Hammerhead is placed 18th overall.

 
You can follow the Leeming team’s progress on their blog and to find out all about the technical side of their entry.
A great video and information about Willeton’s entry can be found on the 100 People: A world Project website 

 The lead cars plan to be in Adelaide by Saturday.

Mashup Australia

The Government 2.0 Taskforce invites you to MashupAustralia.

from Wikipedia:

Mashup (web application hybrid), a web application that combines data and/or functionality from more than one source

Read more about the competition rules and what  Open Access means and why it is so important.

To be eligible for the Student’s Prize [$2,000 for the best entry] you must be enrolled in a recognised secondary schooling or tertiary institution (e.g. TAFE, Uni) in Australia.

Even if you don’t create an entry yourself drop by the Categories page to check out the entries which currently include:

• Victorian Schools Locator
• Broadband Locator
• Geocoded List of Medicare Locations
• Postcode Finder

The MashupAustralia Contest is open for entries until 4PM Friday, 13th November 2009.

from the Edna website…

We are seeking entries from students or schools to produce design work for an electronic edition of the 2010 Schools calendar. The calendar is extensively used by early childhood, primary, secondary teachers and school librarians across Australia and promoted to over 80,000 educational institutions, ensuring that your design work will be seen by many people!

Further information can be found in the competition brief.

Get your winning entry in by Monday 30 November 2009 for your chance to win an Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection and a Wacom Intuos 3 design tablet valued at $900, kindly donated by Scholastic Australia.
Further information about the competition can be found in the competition brief.

Download the competition pack to enter.

Horizon Report 2009

The 2009 Horizon Report for Australia and New Zealand was released on September 25th, 2009 at the National Broadband Network Symposium at Griffith University.

The report is part of ongoing research by the  New Media Consortium and aims to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry  within education around the globe over a five-year time period

The report is available in web format and as a downloadable pdf [1.29MB]



The report describes six areas of emerging technologies that will impact eduction in Australia and New Zealand over the next one to  five years.

These technologies are expected to have a penetration rate greater than 16-20% within:

• The next year
  • Moblie Internet devices
  • Private Clouds
• Two to three years
  • Open content
  • Virtual and alternate realities
• Four to five years
  • Location-based learning
  • Smart objects

Permission is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license to replicate and distribute this report freely for non-commercial purposes provided that it is distributed only in its entirety.

This post from the Bright Ideas blog summarizes the salient points of the 102 page document.

Those who were unable to attend the ASLA Conference this week may like to check this twitterfountain for the tweets and photos posted to flicker.

An archive of tweets from the conference attendees is also available via twapperkeeper

Thanks to Libsmatter and Pru

Update: This morning’s post was put up in haste – before I left for the unconference. Thanks to Kathryn Greenhill (libsmatter) for this great example integrating technology at libcampperth09

Unfortunately only one java script will run on this blog so I have deleted the twitterfountain for the LibCampPerth2009 [It can still be viewed on The LibrariansMatter blog and a number of other places on the web]

Enjoy the show – wherever you are.

Visit Librariansmatter for Kathryn’s CoverIt Live window or the LibraryCampPerth2009 wiki where session notes, photos and videos will be uploaded as they become available.

Take five minutes to consider the pace of change…It’s happening now.

Thanks to Kathryn Greenhill for the heads-up.

Sunday September 13th

Sustainable House Day provides people with the opportunity to visit homes where owners have put sustainable living into practice.

The Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative – WA (AuSSI – WA) website provides a framework that supports schools in the development of a whole-school approach to Education for Sustainability.

DETWA teachers can access the following  TLF  Learning Object exploring energy efficient housing via the DET Portal:

• Energy Efficient House

The CMIS webpages for  Sustainable Development and  Sustainable Schools provide links to a wealth of resources to support units of work on this theme.

Cyberbullying has become more high profile in the community in the last few years as technology such as mobile phones and the Internet become more pervasive.

Funding from the Australian Government is producing new research, such as this done locally at Edith Cowan University. How to deal with the problem of the bullying from a school perspective is under discussion with the Cyber Bullying Intervention program, also under way at ECU.

For a range of Australian and international information and research, the CMIS Cyberbullying webpage provides links to some of the major work currently underway.

We have also started a Cyberbullying list in Delicious and will add new resources as they come to our attention. If you have access to an RSS reader or make yourself an igoogle page, you can subscribe to this Delicious list and get an alert as we add new items.