21st Century Skills

It's nice to have a break, and get some real life in between posts. Not that I've been having much of a break. The NSW DET blogging tool, of which my classes and I were beta testers is a real win...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-posts-for-3-months.html

An online version of this doc can be viewed and downloaded from Here The word version of this doc can be downloaded from here.  Using Google Earth and Google Maps with Blogs/Wikis Mark Co...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2009/05/intel-webinar.html

Check this article and discussion on the expense and relevance of the learning federation's "Learning Objects" on Digital Chalkie. Blogged with the Flock Browser

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2008/07/learning-objects.html

Here is a list from The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and in my opinion is a fair enough place to start. Ask yourself "Do I target any of these in my classroom?" What do you think of the...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2008/03/sojust-what-are-21st-century-skills.html

The Australian Lesson Exchange (ALE) is a relatively new wiki for all Australian Educators from all states and territories. Its a place to share your stuff! Fellow Aussie edubloggers may like ...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/10/scratch-visual-programming-environment.html

Copyright awareness is something that we as teachers must include in our classroom life. I teach a range of children from K-6 and I begin copyright instruction in kindergarten, by modeling behav...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/10/education-and-copyright-at-bionic.html

Hello again. After a period of not posting so regularly, I now appear to be making up for it. I'm currently part way through an Australian Pilot of the new Intel Teaching Essentials Online cour...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-can-using-internet-help-in-my.html

Thats right, another poll. This time from Vizu. Hopefully blogger will work more smoothly with this one than the zoho poll, which had a strange cookie problem, anyway....give it a shot and let m...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/09/yet-another-poll.html

I know its not just me that has the cookie problem with ZoHo Polls. (See comments on original post). So I posted a report to ZoHo. Here is the report: > Lots of my readers are having pro...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/09/reply-from-zoho-and-steps-towards.html

Well, it would appear that zoho polls is having issues with cookies on some browsers. (Mozilla and Explorer to name just 2). Then again, maybe its a blogger thing? A lot of the free online poll ...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/09/polls-in-classroompart-2.html

Hi All Its been a while since I posted. This is just a quick one to test a feature of online polling. Have a go and let me know what you think. There is a lot of interesting pedagogical discussi...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/09/use-of-polls-in-classroom.html

Thanks to Sue T at "and another thing" (great blog Sue) for pointing me to mypersonality . At first I was startled at the results, but after my initial surprise, I found I have had plenty to pon...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-personality-type.html

Whilst searching for an image I could use to illustrate a piece of work. I found this neat video produced by the folk at creative commons . Spread the word, and support Creative Commons.

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/08/creative-commons.html

Roger at LIPS has a presentation incorporating elements of the shift happens/paying attention "series" presentation. In Rogers words: > Readers may be interested to see the way that e...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/08/shift-happens.html

On my cycle trip home from school today I got to do some thinking on the nature of our job, and the people we sometimes work with. Thanks to a colleague (Tim) who passed this to me. Teachers v...

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I love EduBloggerWorld ! If you haven't joined yet, then click the badge in my sidebar and join up. I was browsing through EBW and just stumbled upon this cool video by Jackie at Teacherhacks ...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/3-steps-for-21st-century-learning.html

Lucky us... One of our very talented parents (Jenni Cargill) has allowed us to feature one of her excellent stories as a podcast on the MullumWriters blog. Go and listen if you have a few mi...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/parent20special-guest-podcast.html

Roger Pryor at Leaders in Public Schools has a post explaining the many and varied benefits of utilizing web2.0 tools in your school. In it he links to tech learning articles on web 2.0 and prof...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/digital-schools-statistics.html

I've been asked to present to a group of local small school principals regarding computers in schools and staff training. I've put together a package that I feel provides a framework for underst...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/briefing-principals.html

I sat in on Greg Preston's podcasting session at NSWCEG today. Here is a roundup. Podcast research (in relation to educational outcomes and classroom learning. Not much of it around. Suffice to ...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/podcasting-session-at-nswceg.html

Had the pleasure of chatting with Dan Morris at lunch. He is a fellow Intel Senior Trainer, so we had that amongst other things in common. (Like NECC... even though I was an inworld participant.)...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/21st-century-leadership.html

Well I made it. I'm sitting in a presentation at the moment by Bryn Jones from Atomic Learning. It was a seven hour drive from my place to Newcastle. All of the roads are blocked and there are ...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/07/live-from-nswceg.html

Our principal of the past ten years retires in 2 days time after 40 years of service to Public Education. Here is a small tribute that some of the students, staff and I put together. The show wa...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/06/farewell-mr-benham.html

When Darren Draper said that he'd left a box of t-shirts at the doorway of the main building on ISTE island, I just had to go inworld as soon as I returned from work and grab one "before someon...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/06/cool-new-t-shirt.html

As a smart, clever, literate educator reading this blog, you, like me, are actively trying to reconstruct the learning experiences of students to equip them for a digital, flat future. Why else w...

http://c21skills.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruction-of-learning-experiences.html