I met with Keepad, Plumpton, DET and ACARA last week to discuss the possibility of an ARC Linkage grant. I would envisage the title would be something like:
Instant feedback, performance analysis, personalised curriculum - designing for optimised student learning outcomes using technology enhanced teaching and professional development communities.

Today is my first day of annual leave in quite some time. I’m in Melbourne and it is a good time to reflect. Not only did I buy my first two recreational books in ages (The Audacity of Hope and The Hidden Brain), but I’m starting to think about ideas I would like to pursue [...]

Present:
Mark Silva (ITS)
Chris Barrett (Senior Web Designer Marketing)
David Morgan (AVTS)
Fabianne Astora (AVTS)
Quinny Yang (Marketing)
Jenny Peasley (Library)
Hillary Beckmann (Sustainability OFM)
Ian Brew (Sustainability OFM)
Andrew Alprek (LibIT)
David Gandrel (U@MQ Digital Signage)
Maree Gosper
Elaine Huber
Rodney Grant (AVTS - has video conferencing)
Terrance Collins (Manager Learning Systems)
Marc Bailey (ITS)
Notes:

We need an MQ style Youtube with a) flexible permissioning, b) variety of quality, [...]

LEADING ICT IN EDUCATION PRACTICES A CAPACITY BUILDING TOOLKIT FOR TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
(CHER PING LIM • CHING SING CHAI • DANIEL CHURCHILL)
An outstanding document for integrators of ICT.

Citations for outstanding contributions to student learning and awards for teaching excellence

Due date: April 30

· Citations use one or two criteria, Awards use all of them.
· What they wanted to see was the way students, teachers and teaching philosophy were brought together at all stages.
· Important to get across a subject that [...]

There is no technologies in school education conference in Australasia. It would be useful to have the ICT Innovations Centre host such a conference.
Some possible conference names:

Research on ICT in Schools Australasian conference (RICTSA)
Research on Technology in School Education Australasia (RTSEA)
Research on Technology Enabled Learning in Schools Australasia (RTELSA).

There are several directions educational technology research [...]

Some awesome new sites/products include:

Photosynth.net
worldwidetelescope.org
Kodu
officelabs.com (eg pptPLEX)

Office 2010 new features:

PPT: easier embed of videos into ppt from file, site or clip art and perform some minor editing (styles, shapes, trim, crop, fade)
PPT: broadcast capabilities eg Skydrive or Sharepoint
Can save any files direct to Sharepoint
Word now has true simultaneous editing
OneNote has new collaboration features, such [...]

Statistics notes from Statistical Methods on Psychology by David Howell
Central Limit Theorem: Given a population with mean mu and variance sigma squared, the sampling distribution of the mean (distribution of sample means) will have a mean of mu and a variance of sigma squared divided by n. The distribution will approach the normal distribution as [...]

Chapter 6 - Categorical Data and Chi-square

A multinomial distribution is one that has a range of possible mutually exclusive and exhaustive outcomes for each event, for instance rolling a number greater than three, a number starting with the letter T, or a one. The probability of an event is given by

A chi-square distribution is a [...]

At Macquarie we are developing a system to record micro teaching sessions and have students provide reflective comments about them. The videos are going to be captured using Podcast Capture, Photobooth, or some such tool. Then students will upload them to the new video server that has been setup. Finally an Eportfolio tool such as [...]