Category Archives: Leadership

More on Yammer (2)

Posted on September 4, 2010 by

With NSW DET Yammer now with over 5 000 users and growing, its now far outpaced more established collaborative tools in DET. After 17 months of Yammer use Deloitte, have hit paydirt with its deployment, as CIO peter Williams declares: … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, CoPs, innovation, knowledge, Leadership | 2 Comments

Getting of wisdom

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

Steven Schwartz’s concerns of universities becoming training factories and neglecting a fuller (wisdom based) education, echo back to when I was at Macquarie uni in the 70’s. Then called the ‘arts factory’ MU was offering the rounded Oxbridge degree; insisting … Continue reading →

Posted in education, knowledge, Leadership | 2 Comments

Yammering

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

Nearing  2,200 members on the NSW DET Yammer community its undoubtedly the most subscribed (and active)  professional online network in NSW DET.   So I thought it might be timely to look at emerging patterns of use and engagement. Sampling the … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, CoPs, Informal learning, knowledge, Leadership, Social networking | 8 Comments

Becta & beyond

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

With the recent snuffing of BECTA, must also come the warning signals for similar organisations in many other western countries including Australia.  While an outpouring of comments might suggest messages are mixed on the success of BECTA, inevitably a structure … Continue reading →

Posted in eLearning, Leadership, schooling, standards | 7 Comments

Adoption of new technologies

Posted on May 2, 2010 by

With the release of BlogED into its second month, we are quickly trying to assess its uptake. Since April 25, over 6 000 teachers now have been provisioned , and over 24% have actively built a blog. The rate of uptake … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, Blogs, innovation, Leadership | 6 Comments

Building Innovation: learning with technologies

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

Kathryn Moyles Building Innovation is another example of some provocative issue papers already emerging this year. The paper explores national and international policy priorities for building students’ innovation capabilities through information and communication technologies (ICT) in Australian schools. Importantly it … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, education, eLearning, Informal learning, Leadership, open content, Opensource, policy, schooling, Web2 | 5 Comments

ICT and Educational Outcomes

Posted on March 26, 2010 by

With the paucity of good educational research on ICT on educational outcomes this report  (Are the millenium learners making the grade? ) makes a significant contribution to redefining the landscape and better focusing the research question. In 2006, PISA ran its … Continue reading →

Posted in access, Leadership, Outcomes, professional development, schooling | 9 Comments

Blogs and Leadership

Posted on June 15, 2008 by

Often wondered how blogs and leadership interact. Abi Signorelli recently comments on how she has seen the effects blogs have had on  internal leadership. Witnessing the build of trust in her own workplace, and regard/notoriety for many of the senior … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, innovation, Leadership, management, Social networking, Web2 | 1 Comment