Jacinta Gascoigne's Blog – August 2007 Archive (13)

Update - Australia, the blocking of snt for learners and kids at home (the porn filter) and the interesting USE of snt by those in politics - Mr Howard, Mr Rudd.

I had a chuckle when I realised that the government had put out a youtube to promote joining the defence forces during the gap year and at the same time, they were busy behind the scenes blocking the very people that, one would have thought was a key market.

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A brief update on my son's progress, this week - the week he has begun his learning journey at home.

Zane has created a blog amongst other things, just in a few days this week. It was all new to him, although he did say, that creating his blog was similar to setting up his myspace, which he did ages ago on his own.

You will find updates on his blog as he goes along.

http://zanegomularz.blogspot.com/

I would like him…

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As I have advised I have just decided to homeschool my 16 year old son, after difficulities at the school, mainly around the fact that they refuse, to acknowledge that his chronic fatigue is impacting on his studies - not sure how many medical documents I have given them and they still just call him lazy.

With his self esteem an all time low - I am taking the risk of a life time. Funny I think I am a pretty neat educator/facilitatior - whatever it…

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As a result of difficulties my eldest( a chronic fatigue sufferer), has been having at school and no apparent, easy or speedy resolution or assistance, in sight at the school's end, I have made a decision, placing faith in myself that I have the ability to homeschool my child.

Please note that he is in year 10 in Australia - as I am not sure of the exact equivalents globally.

I have found the past day to be most interesting upon reflection. Why - well let me…

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Hi to all in classroom 2.0. I stumbled over a site that provides a section, listing the current Top 100 Tools for Learning.

I have not delved deep within the entire site, however I did feel that this page would be useful for all as I have certainly gained an insight into other worlds and tools unknown to me before. The layout provides easy reading and the links to each tool, allow you to learn more about what each one does, is used for or in some cases takes you to the development…

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Ning! Myspace is dead.! Long Live Social Networking.

A great article and one that in the most part I have to agree with. I am finding Ning to be my tool of choice when it comes to professional networking and would use it with my learners happily.

Myspace still has it's place however within the arts and business in particular now. If you are teaching anything that has a business aspect, then I feel it is important to at least…

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22203572-5012062,00.html

The article is another reflecting the impact, the net and in particular social networking tools are having on business practices globally.

Another reason maybe to ensure on campus access to the tools, environments and experiences, that I believe must integrated into formal learning at all levels globally.

Jacinta

This article has just been posted and I found it most interesting. Whilst I do not wish to make light of cyberbullying (a victim myself within a professional online network) or the concept of identity theft, but I am going to ask maybe a contaversial question - 'Can your identity be stolen?'.

I look forward to your insights.…

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Social Netowkring boom reaches the workplace - article - The Age 03/08/07

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/social-networking-boom-reaches-the-workplace/2007/08/03/1185648115031.html

I have long believed that social networking tools, would not only reach the workforce, they would become another item…

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I just stumbled upon this rather interesting additiion tot Web 2.0 and its applications with respect to but in the long run not limited to music.

Posted: 01-08-2007…

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From my experience, I get more spam through my work and personal emails, despite all the firewalls, especially at work.

I am finding that those who email through my 'myspace' are those who really wish to be involved in the charity, want more information, wish to join, wish to donate, or are just willing to help spread the word. After 4 weeks not one email that was not of interest - no spam.

Sometimes you do find the…

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Myspace

How did I get involved?

Living with my teenage sons and 18 year old god daughter, I thought I should check out what they were talking about. It was all yet an other language to learn, if I was to communicate with them.

Why did I set up a myspace?

I am on the committee of the only charity in this country…

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