We are smarter than me.

At 8pm tonight [Perth time] Kim Cofino will deliver the pre-conference keynote address for the 2009 K-12 Online conference.

The following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, over fifty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog and conference Ning for participants to view, download, and discuss.

Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” are scheduled on the  conference events page.

Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during and after the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.

Over 120 presentations from 2008, 2007, and 2006 are available, along with archived live events!

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UPDATE: For ease of reading please use the Fullscreen link.

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Perth times [WST] for the fireside chats are:

• Kim Cofino – Friday December 4th 9:00 am
• Joyce Valenza and Konrad Glogowski – Sunday 13th December 2:30am

I’m planning to participate as part of my professional learning.
Stop and say hello if you see me online

– janning

Check this CMIS TechFocus blogpost for more details

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The twitter stream from the ASLA 2009 conference continues.

Many conference attendees tweeted highlights from presentations and workshops. Pru Mitchell [@pru on twitter] set up a twapperkeeper to collect and archive all the tweets using the hashtag #asla2009.

The tweets [clipped below] give links to Mark Treadwell’s and Dr Michael Stephens notes to support their presentations and concurrent presentations.

ASLA_National Mark Treadwell’s notes for keynote #asla2009 Paradigm shift for learning http://www.i-learnt.com/

ASLA_National Concurrent session Dr Michael Stephens #asla2009 http://bit.ly/18n29l Tech trends for school librarians

ASLA_National Dr Michael Stephens keynote #asla2009 Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Address = The Hyperlinked School Library http://bit.ly/3dLGLn

ASLA_National Check images #asla2009 http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=asla2009 If any delegates have pics then upload to Flickr with asla2009 tag

Use the twapperkeeper link above to read all of the 1000+ tweets from the conference.

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and make an enormous contribution

to Australia’s economy,

our culture and

our nation.

Young Australians are invited to visit the

PM’s Youth Blog

from Sept 11th – 25th

to leave comments

addressing these questions:

If you were Prime Minister for a day – what would you do to:

• help our young people grow up safe, happy and resililient
• give young people the skills they need to learn, work and fully engage in community life ?
• reduce the physical and mental health risks facing young Australians, including negative body image, anxiety and depression, obesity and alcohol-fuelled violence?
• enable young people to accept responsibility for their actions and their behaviours?
• help young people to negotiate the challenges of today’s society?

Feedback received from young people via the Prime Minister’s blog will help inform the Government’s plan for young Australians.

Over 200 comments have already been posted.

The first Peace Day was celebrated on September 21, 1982 and officially declared in 2002.

The video above is of a song from the International  Day Of Peace Alliance – a group in Brisbane  which has initiated a project for schools -  Peace Doves for Children in Conflict Zones . The aim is show support for children in Conflict Areas by sending them paper doves. An instuction sheet can be found at this linkIf your school doesn’t want to send the doves away, why not display them in the classroom or in Peace Trees around the school.

 The Culture of Peace is a new initiative aimed at uniting the strenghts of existing organisations to build peace for future generations.  It will be the Internet anchor for a Global World Peace Celebrations website where people from around the world can post videos and messages relating to the achievemnet of peace through environmental sustainabiulity.

11 Days of Global Unity Sept. 11-21 is an annual promotion of peace, justice and environmental responsibility that communities and organizations take part in around the world. It culminates on U.N. International Day of Peace.

Resources to support Peace Studies can be found on the CMIS Resource Bank. 

Watch Part 2 of of the video.

Related CMIS blog posts include:

• Maybe AND/OR/NOT isn’t so hard
• Seek and you shall find…a list of Search engines (other than Google!)

Take a look at the CMIS webpages on Search Tools

This report, published annually, looks at the impact of emerging technologies on education and identifies key trends affecting the practice of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression.

The ol’ salts in the library have been busy making everything shipshape for our special day.

Have a look through me spyglass.

Before ye weigh anchor on your displays send us a copy. Our lookout in the crow’s nest is keepin’ a weather eye open.
Fair wind mateys.

Established in 1982, the United Nations’ International Day of Peace – celebrated each year on September 21 – is a time when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to end conflict and promote peace. The United Nations has produced a new website which encourages people to promote Peace Day events anywhere in the world. Even the simple activity of lighting a candle or taking a walk for peace can be promoted on the site.

Global Education through OzProjects has created a website to support peace building as part of the celebration of International Peace Day, which makes use of technology to explore the Peace topic. 

International Peace Day is also a Day of Ceasefire – be it personal, political or military. People around the globe are encouraged to make peace in relationships as well as in the world conflict zones.

Resources relating to the Peace Studies Topic and War and Conflict can be accessed in the CMIS Resource Bank Database

The National Archives of Australia now has a Flickr presence
where a selected Pic of the Week from the vast collection is featured.

Each week a different image is uploaded from the NAA home page.

The featured photo is then linked back to the NAA site where teachers and students can explore the collection through the the extensive online resources section by registering with vroom [Virtual Reading Room] which gives easy access to archival records.

There is also access to special release documents, Australia’s Prime Ministers and Find of the Month. Each month, this section features something special of National Interest which has been selected by staff to display online.

Through the DET Portal teachers can utilise these resources when using the K-10 Syllabus resource Time Lines and Pathways to the Past: Find Yourself in History.

Save the Children Australia aims to ensure that all children, regardless of gender, race, country of origin or religious belief have the means for survival, receive protection and have access to nutrition, primary health care and basic education.

Shocked by the suffering of children during the Balkans War, Eglantyne Jebb became a pioneer campaigning for worldwide safeguards for children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and now ratified by nearly all countries worldwide, has its roots in her pioneering work.

Eglantyne was also the first to introduce the idea of sponsoring a child in a foreign country and using celebrity endorsements, getting the likes of famous playwright George Bernard Shaw on board.

Read Eglantyne Jebb’s inspirational story in the online book

‘Lessons In Leadership From A Spinster In A Brown Cardigan’.

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