Directory of Australian Edubloggers
This site is a listing of all known Australian educators who have blogs and/or podcasts. Currently there are 32
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Suggested format: name; blog name/s; short bio. Please include a nominated location - Hopefully someone will volunteer to set up a click through map! See here for a global edublogger map.
Podkids Australia
Paul Fuller: I am the teacher of a Year 4 / 5 class in Western Australia, and I am passionate about using technology to enhance learning outcomes across the curriculum. My latest project is a class podcast that the students write and record themselves. As you will hear in our podcast, this medium is an incredibly engaging way of encouraging students to write and reflect on their learning.
21st Century Educator
Brett Moller: I am a young educator interested in the use of technology in the curriculum and the effective development of technology in education programs. I am currently studying my masters of Education in the area of Education Technologies. I run a blog and podcast that you can find at my website. I am also about to start a new project with Bose Corp here in Australia.
Asynchronous Collaborative Learning Activities
An Identity of One's Own
nb: I'm an early career English teacher at a secondary school in regional Victoria. I'm also completing my Master of Arts (Creative Writing) at Monash Uni.
ilearning
Peter Allen: I've been teaching using technology and flexible learning techniques since 1992. I teach computing subjects at TAFE in South Australia. I'm interested in blended mixed mode learning and technology-enhanced learning. I am an early adoptor of desktop video, and audio. I teach full time, so I don't get much chance to do the conference circuit. :)
i-Anya
Angela Thomas: I lecture in English Education at the University of Sydney. My research interests include identity, feminism, media, digital literature, new literacies and young people online. Some of my publications are here but my ongoing thoughts are dumped on my blog.
TomMarch's ozBlog
Tom March: I've been nurturing the WebQuest since its first days and have developed software like Filamentality and Web-and-Flow. My current interest is to promote ClassAct Portals as a way for all students to engage in Real, Rich & Relevant learning.
Mr P's SMART Board
John Pearce: One Victorian teacher's record of the implementation of a SMART Board Interactive whiteboard into a primary school classroom. For science based links you might like to look in at the Simply Science FURL. If you are interested in science education you might also like my Simply Science site.
The Open Classroom
Jo Mc Leay: I am a teacher of English in a secondary school in Melbourne and completing a Masters of Education by research.
Teach And Learn Online
Leigh Blackall: I teach people how to use the internet for teaching and learning. I live in the Blue Mountains NSW, with my beautiful partner Sunshine and our lovely dogs Mistisa and Black One. I create educational resources including websites, movies and animations, print outs, strategies, and training. You can find out more about my work at leighblackall.wikispaces.org
vlog 3.0 [a blog about vogs]
Adrian Miles: Adrian Miles teaches the theory and practice of hypermedia and interactive video at RMIT University, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, digital poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He also explores the affordances of new technologies for networked literacies and the development of new knowledge objects in pedagogy. RMIT City Campus, Melbourne, Australia.
This Teaching life
Scott Bulfin: I'm a teacher/doctoral researcher at Monash University in Melbourne. My research interests include literacies in and out of schools, literacy and technology studies, professional learning, sociocultural theories of education and all the funny things young people do! Stuff like that. More info here or here.
Wax Lyrical
Kate: I am completing a Master of Science, researching blogs and online learning. By day I am an e-learning administrator in Perth.
Bill Kerr
Bill Kerr: Bloggers are writers who are using the next dominant medium, just being digital.
ICT Integration in the Classroom
Mrs C: A collection of thoughts, theories and reflections regarding the use of ICTs in the classroom.
Blog, Blog, Blog
Kylie: I teach basic IT and office skills adult education classes using Ubuntu Linux. I work for Teen Challenge as well as running my own training business and home schooling my teenage daughter.
Southoz E-learning
Vonnie: Exploring the potential of blogs, feeds and podcasting in education. Interested in emerging technologies; Web2.0 tools including social bookmarking for collaboration and professional learning.
Plakboek:Scrapbooking online
Roland Gesthuizen: Learning Technology Coordinator and IT Teacher. Working to support a range of ICT initiatives. leading a team of highly motivated and tallented computer support staff. In charge of a student computer games club and enjoys webcasting, podcasting, blogging and using Moodle. In a previous life was a Research Scientist with ICI Australia. Interested in a swag of issues related to Computers and Education.
Waraku Education
Wara: Ideas, experiments and observations as they occur and I have time relating to teaching and learning in a secondary school - special focus on ICT.
Community Computer Recycle Scheme
Wara: "Community Computer Recycling" is operated by Grant High School to provide free computers (including software and basic training) to community organisations and people in need in our community. Students in the computer technician class gain practical skills through this program. More information at the CCR website.
Teaching Generation Z
Graham Wegner: An Adelaide based Aussie educator involved in technology leadership at his school, always looking to learn and discuss breaking issues. Also contributes to ActivBoarding
Live and let Learn
Michael Nelson: Currently facilitating a web-design class (see Design Websites) at TAFE in the Blue Mountains NSW. Encouraging learners to learn themselves with a mix of blogging/newsfeedsas together with our class activities. I try to reflect on my own learning at Live and let Learn.
Jo Murray
LearnDog
Mike Seyfang: Mike is program manager for this interesting new venture. We will try to help kids through recognition of their vocational skills. Early days yet - to follow our progress subscribe to LearnDogPup Blog.
Jason Plunkett
Jason Plunkett: An ongoing conversation about the various aspects of eLearning, issues new technologies and the impacts these have as they are incorporated into the classroom.
Fatima's Teaching Lab
Fatima Measham maintains a chronicle of her journey as a novice secondary educator in Victoria, for the purposes of reflection, improvement, and the preservation of sanity. And to give more experienced teachers a laugh and a sense of nostalgia.
teaching and learning
Warrick Wynne: I am Director of Learning and Curriculum in an independent girls school in Victoria, teaching Senior English and interested in the effective utilisation of technologies in learning, esp. tablet pcs, blogs, podcasts and all things Web 2.0
web2learn
Brad Hicks and Kelly Anderson: We are high school teachers in Western Australia, teaching Business and Computing and English respectively. We are interested in trying Web 2.0 technologies as tools for student learning. We are documenting our experiences to help others and hopefully also gain some input from those who are already using these technologies.
PD Spot
Garry Chapman: I am Assistant Director of Curriculum at an independent co-educational school in Melbourne. Most of my work involves support for curriculum development in the middle years, from upper primary to lower secondary. Our students have their own notebook computers. I have set up this blog to document and share some of the things I have been doing with teachers and students.
TLnewsau
Jill Ball: A novice blogger, I am the Head of Information Services at an independent co-educational school in Sydney. My blog records resources used in my personal learning journey, provides links to news items and lists resources of interest to other Teacher Librarians in Australian Schools.
head first in at the deep end
Hg: My blog contains collected ramblings on my great leap into teaching... After an exciting education, provided by both university and the world at large, I decided I might just be grown up enough to teach... I finished my dip ed in secondary school science and health and now find myself in outer suburban Melbourne teaching disabled 6 year olds in the primary area of a specical school!
Technology in the English Classroom
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CDQ: I am a Drama, English, and Entertainment Teacher in a NSW secondary school. My blog is a page my students visit to get weekly, and sometimes daily tasks. Mainly for creative writing, and exploring different text types. Each student has a companion blog on learnerblogs.org. The first site is for my 2 classes I see once a fortnight, and the second site is for my full load of Yr 8 who are desperate to be "blogging".some information and tasks are doubled.
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