De (& team from Education.au)
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My involvement started with web2 consulting for SA DECS and education.au in Adelaide.
If one starts with my ‘audio only’ podcast of Graham’s contribution to the K-12 conference there is an interesting trail that leads back to my consulting with DECS and education.au. It goes something like this:
Graham’s piece gathers input from key players in his network who include Al and Jude. Al, Jude, De and I were behind the web2 coverage of the education.au global summit in Sydney which Graham (and others contributed to). Al was recruited by De to help with a previous education.au event in Sydney where I helped with podcasting (incl philip adams talk) and Jude was given a network card so that she could do some live blogging. Somewhere between these two events, Karen from TSOF put on a free workshop ‘all you wanted to know about web2 but were afraid to ask’ where the members of Net2blazers gave demonstrations that were very well received. The net2blazers group was convened through Karen follwoing her blogging masterclass (at which mike, al and graham met for the first time).
Fang – Mike Seyfang
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Greg Carey
// Nov 21, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I am appalled at the closing of a centrepiece of South Australian education. It has been an Australian icon in the promotion of technology and was the focus for a number of systemic innovations and a support for boldness and experimentation in schools.
TSOF’s success could never be calculated in economic rationalist terms. The model of learning has changed, and “bums on seats” is not a valid measure of success.
TSOF was part of the conduit of conversation that George Siemans talks about as so vital to the new learning theory of Connectivism.
Without TSOF, the conversation, and hence learning, will be much poorer in Australia.
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