Comments for Watershed http://blog.larkin.net.au Thoughts on teaching, learning, technology and life in an era of change. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:01:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Diigo in education ~ this is crazy man! by » Web 2.0 guilt Brave new world http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/#comment-605 » Web 2.0 guilt Brave new world Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:54:57 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/#comment-605 [...] John Larkin’s blog struck a chord with me when he talked about signing up for everything under the sun ‘in a drunken Web 2.0 haze’. Me too. My ‘registrations’ information word doc is now into its third page - yes, you heard correctly. But what am I to do!? There’s so much out there, and I’m like a child in a lolly shop. All the lollies are free, did I mention? As John says, ‘too much choice does create paralysis. Like the aisles in a supermarket. Too much choice is a legacy of the twentieth century I guess’. And I do love knowledge, discussion, recommendation, links to fabulous resources. And I love passing these on to other people. Still, this weekend I have done other things: boring house stuff, baked a blueberry crumble cake, helped my younger son with a project about earthquake-safe houses, bought a barbecue, watched an energizing Nigel Kennedy concert on DVD, had breakfast at Brunetti’s, visited Wunderkammer, read my older son’s year 12 psychology research essay, played with the dog…. so you see, it’s not that bad. I loved one of the comments on John Larkin’s blog: ‘Set up a new group? *^_^* What should we call it? “Clayton’s 2.0″? The group you have when you are not having a group?’ [...] […] John Larkin’s blog struck a chord with me when he talked about signing up for everything under the sun ‘in a drunken Web 2.0 haze’. Me too. My ‘registrations’ information word doc is now into its third page - yes, you heard correctly. But what am I to do!? There’s so much out there, and I’m like a child in a lolly shop. All the lollies are free, did I mention? As John says, ‘too much choice does create paralysis. Like the aisles in a supermarket. Too much choice is a legacy of the twentieth century I guess’. And I do love knowledge, discussion, recommendation, links to fabulous resources. And I love passing these on to other people. Still, this weekend I have done other things: boring house stuff, baked a blueberry crumble cake, helped my younger son with a project about earthquake-safe houses, bought a barbecue, watched an energizing Nigel Kennedy concert on DVD, had breakfast at Brunetti’s, visited Wunderkammer, read my older son’s year 12 psychology research essay, played with the dog…. so you see, it’s not that bad. I loved one of the comments on John Larkin’s blog: ‘Set up a new group? *^_^* What should we call it? “Clayton’s 2.0″? The group you have when you are not having a group?’ […]

]]> Comment on Singapore ~ teachers and technology by John Larkin http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/11/singapore-teachers-and-technology/#comment-603 John Larkin Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:33 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=704#comment-603 Hi Sue, You are welcome. I think that your idea re a Creative Commons Licence is a good. I have been gradually placing a CC link on all my pages. Gradually. ^_^ I shall be improving that specific web page this week as well. Best wishes and all the best for Friday, John. Hi Sue, You are welcome. I think that your idea re a Creative Commons Licence is a good. I have been gradually placing a CC link on all my pages. Gradually. ^_^
I shall be improving that specific web page this week as well.
Best wishes and all the best for Friday, John.

]]> Comment on Singapore ~ teachers and technology by Sue Waters http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/11/singapore-teachers-and-technology/#comment-602 Sue Waters Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:39:38 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=704#comment-602 Thanks John. I've now added your manual to the Getting Started with Edublogs page. At the moment I'm linking to the PDF document. I have conflicting thoughts relating to the Word Document -- its good in that it gives people the opportunity to make slight changes to the document to fit a workshop that they might be running but on the downside I feel it isn't quite right if they then pass it off as their own work. Perhaps a solution would be to add a creative commons license to the Word Document and say that you are happy for people to adapt provided they attribute you as the original source? I will also definitely be sharing your resource page on Friday when I do my presentation because it has so many excellent links. Thanks John. I’ve now added your manual to the Getting Started with Edublogs page. At the moment I’m linking to the PDF document. I have conflicting thoughts relating to the Word Document — its good in that it gives people the opportunity to make slight changes to the document to fit a workshop that they might be running but on the downside I feel it isn’t quite right if they then pass it off as their own work. Perhaps a solution would be to add a creative commons license to the Word Document and say that you are happy for people to adapt provided they attribute you as the original source?

I will also definitely be sharing your resource page on Friday when I do my presentation because it has so many excellent links.

]]> Comment on Good To Great Teaching Seminar Part 1 by Social bookmarking works for me! http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/02/28/good-to-great-teaching-seminar-part-1/#comment-601 Social bookmarking works for me! Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:07:14 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/02/28/good-to-great-teaching-seminar-part-1/#comment-601 [...] April of this year inquiring about Web 2.0 workshops. I assumed that Keith may have attended my presentation at the Good To Great Teaching Seminar here in Singapore last February and found out about my work as a result of [...] […] April of this year inquiring about Web 2.0 workshops. I assumed that Keith may have attended my presentation at the Good To Great Teaching Seminar here in Singapore last February and found out about my work as a result of […]

]]> Comment on Setting up blogs for my students ~ how was it done? by Workshops, walking and unwinding in Singapore http://blog.larkin.net.au/2007/10/29/setting-up-blogs-for-my-students-how-was-it-done/#comment-600 Workshops, walking and unwinding in Singapore Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:37:41 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2007/10/29/setting-up-blogs-for-my-students-how-was-it-done/#comment-600 [...] Posterous and Plurk among others. I shared some of the wikis made by my Year Eleven students and blogs written by my Year Nine students. The participants also received Twitter greetings from acroamatic, janelowe, isaakkwok, [...] […] Posterous and Plurk among others. I shared some of the wikis made by my Year Eleven students and blogs written by my Year Nine students. The participants also received Twitter greetings from acroamatic, janelowe, isaakkwok, […]

]]> Comment on Singapore ~ teachers and technology by John Larkin http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/11/singapore-teachers-and-technology/#comment-599 John Larkin Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:03:55 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=704#comment-599 Hi Sue and Kenneth, Sue: Thank you. Flatterd. ^_^ Please feel free to link to the Show and Share page. It will be updated a little over this weekend as I prepare for this week's workshops. I will be updating the eduBlogs document as well ~ improvements. It may be just a little out of date. Please feel free to link to the word dcoument and the newly created pdf of the same document. I created the pdf for you. Hope this helps. When I update the documents I shall drop you a line. I will be adding documents for Diigo, Dapper and others over the next few days. The first workshop is over and I can relax a little now. The first one takes me across that threshold that I find hard to describe and the rest just flow. We had some free time at the end and the participants played with Compfight, Plurk, Posterous and Twitter. Kenneth: I was wondering if any of you guys were ex SJI boys. In fact, during lunch I am sure I saw a miniature version of Siva. I wanted to play football with him and the rest of the boys. He must have been about Sec 4. Thanks for the tweet too Kenneth. Cheers, John Hi Sue and Kenneth,

Sue: Thank you. Flatterd. ^_^ Please feel free to link to the Show and Share page. It will be updated a little over this weekend as I prepare for this week’s workshops. I will be updating the eduBlogs document as well ~ improvements. It may be just a little out of date. Please feel free to link to the word dcoument and the newly created pdf of the same document. I created the pdf for you. Hope this helps. When I update the documents I shall drop you a line.

I will be adding documents for Diigo, Dapper and others over the next few days.

The first workshop is over and I can relax a little now. The first one takes me across that threshold that I find hard to describe and the rest just flow. We had some free time at the end and the participants played with Compfight, Plurk, Posterous and Twitter.

Kenneth: I was wondering if any of you guys were ex SJI boys. In fact, during lunch I am sure I saw a miniature version of Siva. I wanted to play football with him and the rest of the boys. He must have been about Sec 4. Thanks for the tweet too Kenneth.

Cheers, John

]]> Comment on Singapore ~ teachers and technology by acroamatic http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/11/singapore-teachers-and-technology/#comment-598 acroamatic Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:03:03 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=704#comment-598 Ah, nice. SJI's my alma mater. Hope that the teachers pick up lots of useful tech tips from you! Ah, nice. SJI’s my alma mater. Hope that the teachers pick up lots of useful tech tips from you!

]]> Comment on Singapore ~ teachers and technology by Sue Waters http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/11/singapore-teachers-and-technology/#comment-597 Sue Waters Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:14:16 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=704#comment-597 Hi John Hope you have an excellent time in Singapore. Your Show and Share page is absolutely excellent -- thinking I will refer to it in my own presentation next week. I was wondering if you are okay with me linking to your Edublogs How To Document from <a href="http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/" rel="nofollow">The Getting Started With Edublogs page</a> of The Edublogger? Also pondering if I do that whether its better to have it as a PDF and if so are you happy for me to convert to a PDF? Hi John

Hope you have an excellent time in Singapore. Your Show and Share page is absolutely excellent — thinking I will refer to it in my own presentation next week. I was wondering if you are okay with me linking to your Edublogs How To Document from The Getting Started With Edublogs page of The Edublogger? Also pondering if I do that whether its better to have it as a PDF and if so are you happy for me to convert to a PDF?

]]> Comment on Wikipedia verifies via Google search too by Ann Onnymouse http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/07/wikipedia-verifies-via-google-search-too/#comment-596 Ann Onnymouse Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:20:44 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=702#comment-596 Of course googling is a good method of validating information; you look for info and check if it's reasonable. If it is, you've got validation. But if you google, and find *nothing whatsoever* then you have a rather likely lack of validation. I think it's cute that you guys are trying to save this article. Too bad it won't help. You're just gonna get the topic name protected from creation. Of course googling is a good method of validating information; you look for info and check if it’s reasonable. If it is, you’ve got validation. But if you google, and find *nothing whatsoever* then you have a rather likely lack of validation.

I think it’s cute that you guys are trying to save this article. Too bad it won’t help. You’re just gonna get the topic name protected from creation.

]]> Comment on Gary Stager on my mind by John Larkin http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/07/06/gary-stager-on-my-mind/#comment-595 John Larkin Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:25:39 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=699#comment-595 Hi Ken Thanks for leaving the comment. That is interesting. I do not get the same warning for the site. I wonder what may cause that. I know that sometimes my main site garnered a "phishing" warning on some versions of Internet Explorer. I removed the Google Analytics code and the warnings stopped. Perhaps a filter is too sensitive. Cheers, John Hi Ken

Thanks for leaving the comment. That is interesting. I do not get the same warning for the site. I wonder what may cause that. I know that sometimes my main site garnered a “phishing” warning on some versions of Internet Explorer. I removed the Google Analytics code and the warnings stopped. Perhaps a filter is too sensitive.

Cheers, John

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