Podcast number 142 - November 8th, 2010

[Running time: 1:14:25 mins, size: 51.2 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

Skype beta for Mac - http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/11/mac.html

Massive Multi Player Online Game - via Lucy Barrow
(Good feedback from last week’s interview!) - http://universe.lego.com/en-us/splash/default.aspx

Interview with Steve Collis

Websites:

Steve’s Blog: http://www.happysteve.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Steve_Collis

http://www.realaudienceproject.com - a central portal to a plethora of web-publishing projects by our students, including blog sites, audio sites, and our student-authored print book store. Some teacher resources available at: http://realaudienceproject.wikispaces.com

www.beyondborders.edu.au - e-Twinning website I pioneered in 2005, uses Moodle to provide shared collaborative spaces spanning schools.

www.youtube.com/lestep for ed videos, including a virtual worlds overview.

http://scil.nsw.edu.au/scil-building/ - this site gives contact info if people want to visit our school - we’ve had well over 300 visitors this year.

www.hsconline.nsw.edu.au - we use Moodle to deliver online HSC courses to students around NSW. Also see http://portal.nbcs.nsw.edu.au for links to our Primary and High School instances of Moodle. All classes/courses use Moodle intensively. Universal take-up.

School Link - http://nbcs.nsw.edu.au/

More about Steve: http://www.happysteve.com/7-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-me.html

Events:

VITTA Conference:
http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo
Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne - Mon 29 Nov & Tue 30 Nov

ICTEV - call for papers for 2011 conference
http://ictev.vic.edu.au/ictev2011-state-conference-call-papers

2010 K-12 Online  Conference - http://k12onlineconference.org
Schedule - K-12 Online Wiki - http://wiki.k12onlineconference.org