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"Last night we held two parent information evenings for parents whose students in years 6 and 7 for 2012 will be involved in our 1:1 iPad Trial. I have placed our 1:1 iPad Booklet for 2012 below, as a PDF version for download, as well as the Prezi presentation that parents were ran through."

"The Australian Council for Computers in Education and ECAWA, the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia invite you to join us in Perth for ACEC 2012. This major event on the regional education calendar will be held from Tuesday October 2nd to Friday October 5th 2012 and will feature prominent Australian and international speakers."

In the future but worth bookmarking your interest and details now on this place-holder webpage.

"During June 2012 I attended an #eSmart training course. Whilst this aggregates collects some of the posts that I made, I have also added some of the tweets by friends at the #NCAB12 conference that was running at the same time."

" The nominees for the annual Teens' Top Ten have been announced today in honor of Celebrate Teen Literature Day by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Nominations are posted every year on Celebrate Teen Literature Day during National Library Week. This year, the nominee list features 28 titles that were published between Jan. 1, 2012 and Dec. 31, 2012. The nominees can be found below on the Teens' Top Ten website www.ala.org/teenstopten and on the new teen friendly Teens' Top Ten website http://www.ala.org/yalsa/reads4teens.

"Some of the social media buzz during the VITTA conference that was held over two days in August 2012 . I have woven this story using quantum strings so it mashes together ideas and shuffles about the times. It is a personal reflection and of course, the best thing was the opportunity to be there :-)"

Last call for expressions of interest for the 2012 tour.  Due to a high number of expressions of interest the ACCE Board will be able to offer places to perspective participants in early December.  Last chance to express interest in going!

Pedagogy and curriculum that engages students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds and is deemed personally relevant to the lives they live, are seen as important factors towards equality of outcome by Wrench, Hammond, McCallum and Price (2012). Their research involved designing a curriculum and pedagogy that would be highly engaging to students of low-socioeconomic status. 'The interventions involved curriculum redesigns that set meaningful, challenging learning task(s) (culminating in high quality learning products); strong connection to student life-worlds; and a performative expectation for student learning.' (Wrench et al 2012 p934)

"According to School Library Journal's 2012 School Technology Survey, media specialists are leading the charge to bring new media, mobile devices, social apps, and web-based technologies into our nation's classrooms."

Article is an excerpt from the December issue of Edudemic Magazine. It lists the best apps (from educators around the world) resources for 2012.

If you're near your Skype account and Skype device tonight (Wednesday, 11 April, 630pm Adelaide time) - I'd welcome your participation in a test call to kick the tyres on Skype premium. Details on my blog: http://kerryj.com/2012/04/11/skype-premium-test/

characteristics of reflective writing

Sue Waters (Feb 2012) post: With Twitter recent redesign of its mobile apps and web interface I've decided it's time to update my Twitteraholic's Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter post.  

"Around 60 students and staff from four DSNN schools took part in the first Deakin Media Day at the Burwood campus on Nov 23rd 2012. Many thanks to everyone from Brauer College, Keysborough Secondary College, North Geelong Secondary College and Newcomb Secondary College for your enthusiasm and hard work to make the day such a success. Activities included a 'hands-on' work presenting a live news bulletin in Deakin's TV studio, Journalism video and interviewing exercises and a tour of the Deakin campus. Many thanks to Subway for providing lunch, too! We will be running more Deakin Media Days in June and November, 2013, so watch out for more news about these."

"What does it mean to "unlearn" and what should we "unlearn"? The world is full of examples of once regarded "truths" that needed to be "unlearned": Pluto as a planet, doctors "unlearning" to use a scalpel to perform certain surgeries, world is not flat, etc.  In fact, a review of the scientific discoveries for 2012 reveals laundry list of some recent "unlearning" in the science community."

Jobs Abroad, Work Abroad, International Jobs Online- There are a lot of companies in the world but we want to recommend a company that can give its employees what they deserve. One of the companies we want to endorse is Dubai Duty-Free. It is a company responsible for the duty-free operations at Dubai International Airport. It is one of the biggest airport retailers in the world in terms of sales in the year 2012.

"A report about a professional learning conference held at Keysborough College, a dual campus secondary school located in the Melbourne South-Eastern suburbs. The event involved all the college staff, spanning two days from Monday 16 to Tuesday 17th April 2012."

Cyber bullying is insidious and it looks as though it's here to stay. The challenge for parents and teachers is to work out how to educate young people about empathy and resilience.