Some of my feeds:
My work blog- KerryJ’s blog at education.au 
Letters and numbers aren’t enough - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
I’m doing some research into assessment in K-12 education and in looking at formative and summative assessment tools, skimming white papers and reading about the need to fuse the 3Rs and the 4Cs (communication, collaboration, critical thinking & creativity - from http://www.21stcenturyskills.org) I wondered how the report card has evolved.
This came to mind because [...]
Welcome to ImmersED Estate - Mon, 08 Mar 2010
In the book “Disrupting Class” - an exploration of what disruptive innovation is and how it could change education - lead author Clayton Christensen (along with co-authors Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) argues that in education as in business, innovation initially starts out competing against non-consumption. Or,in other words, it’s better than doing nothing.
So, [...]
New Second Life viewer and live textures - Thu, 25 Feb 2010
This is just a quick post on my initial experiments with the new Second Life Viewer 2 -
My initial reaction is gushy — love the interface (clean, techy, uncluttered), love the graphics, and LOOOVE the ability to share media. Video play from sites like YouTube allow you to go full screen or to play in [...]
Excited over a virtual laptop - Fri, 22 Jan 2010
In building our OpenSim estate on Reaction Grid, I needed a virtual laptop for a few of the activities there. As a government owned agency, Education.au needs to model good digital citizenship - so photographing one of my own laptops was out of the question due to issues of Intellectual Property.
So I contacted several [...]
Second Life: rumours of demise greatly exaggerated? - Mon, 11 Jan 2010
I’ve had numerous people ask if I’d seen an article in PCPRO called “Whatever happened to Second Life?” in which the author shares his experience of Second Life of being a ghost town at best and a porn haven at worst. If the piece had merely been about the author’s experience and he’d asked for [...]
My latest Diigo bookmarks
On national standardised testing on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
A student's view on national standardised tests
Tags: test assessment RICTAT education teaching
Posted by: kerryj
Lightning Bug - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
"Your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to THE END"
Tags: writing story interactive narrative language_arts
Posted by: kerryj
Rubrics for Assessment - Online Professional Development for K-12 Teachers - University of Wisconsin - Stout - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Tags: assessment rubrics RICTAT
Posted by: kerryj
Google Quizes | Screencast-O-Matic | Diigo - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Using Google Form as an online quiz tool
Tags: google quiz assessment RICTAT
Posted by: kerryj
Quiz Center offers teacher quizzes at DiscoverySchool.com. | Diigo - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Commercial entity - Discovery Channel - online quiz tool that works with their Classroom.
Tags: RICTAT
Posted by: kerryj
Neotenous vid – my vlog
Test video - Wed, 13 May 2009
testing
Jokaydia March 2009 Field Trip de-brief - Sun, 22 Mar 2009
Discussion about projects and upcoming events on the islands of Jokdaydia in Second Life.
Second Life how to: Instant messaging to get a teleport - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Sometimes you just lose your way in Second Life. If you've got an SL event that you can't find but have the name of the host's avatar -- this video demonstrates how you can contact that person in-world and get to the event.
Second Life: teleporting via notecard links and teleport disks - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Why walk or fly when you can teleport? A quick tutorial on two different ways to access teleporting in Second Life. Part of a presentation for EDayz08 on virtual worlds.
Second Life: Turning night into day - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
There is no need to stumble around in the dark in Second Life - just a few clicks and you can turn on the sun anytime!