There’s a slowly growing herd of COWs providing a range of products for schools and students in the Hunter Central Coast Region of NSW.
Click the COW to go there NOW.
A COW is simply an acronym for a Collaborative Online Workspace and was deliberately coined to focus on the intent of the space, rather than [...]

Moving on with Moodle
Some Moodle hosting ideas:
Sentral
Maybe you’d like your own server on site.  Fast.
Ask around for other providers
External dedicated hosts
Bright Cookie
Moodle.com.au
NetSpot
Catalyst
I’m not necessarily recommending any one of these. This is just an example of a range of services out there. Just google a phrase like ‘managed moodle hosting’ and choose pages from Aus..or [...]

We’re looking forward to working with Year 9 SRC reps tomorrow to find our their views on DER and to share some thoughts with them.
We’ll be posting some of the input on the blog which has been created for the day. For a sneak peek, check out
http://hccweb3.org/eldoom

It was good to meet so many keen teachers and Principals at our first Moodle Info Arvo today. Huge thanks to Pip for all of her work getting support resources ready and posting to the Moodle Sandbox.
Watch out for more Moodle info and a special day for High School moodlers.
You can see all of our [...]

Thanks to Twitter, here is a new video which promotes both ideas which are really useful, but issues a challenge as well

School Education Directors and other senior officers got the chance to explore the great resources and potential of the DER laptops during the Office of Schools Portfolio Day in Sydney today.

Sylvia’s session gets underway.

 
Some live video from the session.. recorded on mobile and uploaded to ning. The embed code has been pasted below.

Find more videos like this on Hunter Central Coast web 2.0 in schools

Steohen Wilson, CIO for the DET presenting the opening session on Day 2 of the connected learning conference at the Novotel

The Grapevine has just scored its first century !!  We have now had our one hundredth subscription to the list and now have members from across a number of regions.
Please don’t forget that the list is a place for everybody to use to share ideas, ask questions, post links to information you have found useful, [...]

Thoughts that you have about ICT and PD for ICT. 
A use of Wordle to analyse text and present a graphic summary based on frequency etc/
 
 
 Or, as another example,
What makes PD successful?