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New Millennium Learners

Author: tom | 15 September 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Tom's work

New Millennium Learners Conference
Brussels, Belgium
21-23 September
The OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) launched the New Millennium Learners (NML) project in 2007. It has the global aim of investigating the effects of digital technologies on school-age learners and providing recommendations on the most appropriate institutional and policy responses from the education sector.
Tom will be [...]

IWBnet Gold Coast Conference

Author: tom | 04 September 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Tom's work

Welcome
The following links will support people attending or interested in my sessions at the Third National Leading a Digital School Conference – 2009.
First off – I’m doing a keynote I’m calling “The Future Began Last Year”.  A main point is that the world has changed around education and it’s in everyone’s best interest to invent [...]

10th Anniversary Clean-up Sale

Author: tom | 20 August 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Best WebQuests, Tom's work

G’Day All, It’s time for a little house cleaning…

After over a decade as a “Web-based educator,” I’ve accumulated a few too many things to look after myself. So it’s time to see if they can find a better home. Next month, I’ll share a few domains that are catchy, [...]

Hume eLearning Conference

Author: tom | 02 August 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Tom's work

Online Tour
This set of links serves as a main menu of sites for the Elluminate keynote Tom March is doing for the Hume eLearning Conference.

Look to Learn site (about)
ClassPortal Support Site (about)
ClassPortal: 2020 Vision
WebQuests 2.0 (about pdf)
CEQ-ALL – seek all (10 profiles and rubric pdf)

Sample Skills
Bookmarking

Clipmarks
Diigo Groups

Feeds & Podcasts

Pageflakes
TED Talks (iTunes link)

Cool Web 2 Tools

Stixy.com [...]

Curriculum Mapping in Melbourne

Author: tom | 25 May 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: Tom's work, Web 2.0

I’m fortunate to be working with ACEL and ASCD as they bring Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Ann Johnson to Australia to continue the introduction of Curriculum Mapping to our schools.  My perspective is that available technologies enable students to “side-step or super-charge” their learning.  The determining factor is a meaningful and individualised curriculum that engages [...]

CPTLA Conference – Teacher Librarians!

Author: tom | 20 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Tom's work

Nice to join some of my favourite people: teacher librarians.  Part of what makes them so precious to schools is that they perform one of the few roles that has truly altered in the past few decades.  From card catalogs to server closets and from a stack of Britannica to Encarta collapsing under the weight [...]

Look to Learn Launched

Author: tom | 20 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Tom's work

I’ve just launched a site I’ve been wanting to get onto the Web for a while.  Called “Look to Learn,” the site combines what I like to call “Real, Rich and Relevant” resources with thinking prompts.  The rationale is to help teachers and students use such activities frequently (3+ times / week) as a way [...]

Web 2 & the Studies of Asia PD

Author: tom | 30 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Tom's work, Web 2.0

Welcome to participants in this two day workshop held at the University of Melbourne and organised by Lindy Stirling, State Advisor, Studies of Asia (see the Studies of Asia Wiki).
Day 1
We will mostly be working from Tom’s CEQ-ALL site.  The outline of Day 1 with Tom  is:

Web 2.0 – Empowering Learning
Beginning with Web 2 Tools  [...]

Gifted and Talented

Author: tom | 25 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Tom's work

Tom March is working with Gifted and Talented educators from the Victorian department schools.  The day will focus on two main points: CEQ-ALL and the 1,2,3 Strategies for Meaningful Learning.
Here’s a handout of links and resources

Working with Loreto Kirribilli

Author: tom | 12 October 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Tom's work

At sessions today, I’m working with the teachers of Loreto Kirribilli to consider CEQ-ALL as a unifying process to contextualise their outstanding learning framework which is designed to help students “develop as intelligent, confident, wise and lovable young women, with a strong sense of social responsibility.”
Through the course of the day, I’ll be sharing my [...]