Author Archives: matthewbower

Full program is available from: http://www.educ.mq.edu.au/2010SydneySymposium/agenda.htm Notes: Note that the Curriculum Corporation & Edu.au merged to form Educational Services Australia Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL): http://www.aitsl.edu.au/ AITSL has money to support technology integration into learning and teaching, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →