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I'm presenting to my colleagues at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina this coming Wednesday on the potential for networked learning in teacher education, K-12 and higher education. Inspired by a very recent initiative by Robin Ellis, I've decided to put up a Voicethread slide and ask for feedback from people on their experiences with networked/social learning.

The 2011 International Conference on Information Technology in Education (CITE 2011) will be held on December 9~11, 2011 in Wuhan, China. It's a special track of CiSE 2011.All accepted papers of CiSE 2011 will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by Ei Compendex and ISTP.

just cannot accept excuses about technology being optional, whether it's from someone who is new to teaching or others who are close to retirement. There are children in those classrooms every day who deserve the best education we can offer them, and it is completely unfair if that education is less than it should be because someone wants to pick and choose which aspects of their job they feel are important.  No child should have to put up with out of date learning experience just because their close-to-retirement teacher is "taxiing to the hangar".

A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives*

What I specifically find interesting here is the concept of Digital Citizenship

Joyce Seitzinger doing PLN preso at Skills Tasmania Conference 2011

People jump at a post which shares generously, such as Joyce Seitzinger's Moodle tool guide for teachers post. In this case, Joyce adapted a social media cheat sheet with a business/marketing focus to one relevant to education. When you do the hard work and share a resource you've created in your post, it's a winner.

A new train of thought… Leadership and Innovation in Skills Our 2011 Conference is jam-packed with the latest news, ideas, mind-blowing opportunities and exciting educational technologies. Find out how to leverage off the National Broadband Network to build your skills-base and future-proof your business. Impressive local, national and international speakers will inform and entertain you.

Andrew Churches Elearning Wiki, Blooms, 21st Century Learning, Facilitating, Pedagogy.

The Australian Taxation Office has said that the iPad, and equivalent e-readers or tablets, are deemed to be equivalent to a laptop and it will attract a 50 per cent education rebate. This will make iPads popular with schools.

My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction. They have been a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been great fun connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. Thanks for all the help so far.

Blended. The best of both worlds?