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Web 2.0 and Teachers’ CPD

April 23rd, 2009 No Comments

I spent Monday evening and most of Tuesday at Brunel University with a group of colleagues from schools, HE, DCFS, GTCE and a variety of other educational organizations, looking at Web 2.0 tools and discussing them in the the context of teacher professional development. I offer this posting as a summary for those on the [...]

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Shift Happens!

February 3rd, 2009 1 Comment

I came across this slide show a few months back and then misplaced the url, but someone was kind enough to reacquaint me with it a few days ago. It is called Shift Happens, the contents of which are based on a presentation given by Karl Fisch. It is rather long, but very interesting if [...]

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Award Winning Online Communities!

January 23rd, 2009 2 Comments

The IDeA (Improvement and Development Agency) has just won an e-Government National Award for excellence in professionalism and leadership. The award was achieved by the Knowledge Management team, who CORE Education UK has been mentoring and working alongside for the past 2 years. The development and implementation of their Communities of Practice platform, which was [...]

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EdTalks

January 21st, 2009 2 Comments

Last October I spent two weeks in Christchurch, New Zealand at the ULearn08 Conference hosted by CORE Education NZ. It was a fabulous occasion, where my colleagues and I from CORE Education UK got to know the New Zealand team, strengthening our professional and organisational bonds as well as presenting our current thinking at the [...]

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