HI all,

Well that was a great two days. In the last post I updated the I linked to the PowerPoints and Audio.

Now for some photos:

This morning there was an article in the paper about a 107 Year blogger and it was a great starting point for my presentation.

I woke up to this view:

and I was able to prepare in a relaxed manner

cheers Martin

Hi all,

Tonight I head up to Katoomba for the first of three rolling Country Conferences to help teachers in rural and remote NSW. I am Vice President of the Association and will be talking about the Integration of ICT into the teaching of Geography.

Here is the program . I will give you more details later.

Update: Here are some of the presentations

Katoomba Conference Resources

Emy Petry – Geography Challenge listen to the audio
Lorraine Chaffer -Ocean Watch PowerPoint and listen to the audio
Sue Field – Water for Life PowerPoint and listen to the audio
Martin Pluss – Using technology in the classroom PowerPoint, listen to the audio
Martin Pluss – Listen to and view Research Action Plan PowerPoint

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Cheers Martin

Hi All,

Reading about Ewan’s experiences with the recent birth of his child and his post of what is happening it reminded me of when Nick and Ali were born in 1993 and 1996. The Principal of the school allowed me leave without pay.

In 1993 on the 22nd of each month I wrote Nick a letter which I will give him when he turns 21 and you can tell him about it if I am gone. It was a big thing, I type iot on an Apple Classic and sent hard copies to friends who might have been interested Paul Keating was Prime Minister, my brother in law was one year away from playing cricket for Australia.

Anyway I went back to work for another two years and Ali was born this time on the 30 January – yeh teachers have children in January. A different boss at the same school allowed me another year off and I wrote another letter this time to Ali.

By now I had upgraded the computer to An Apple Black Executive and I had a dial up at home. John Howard was in Government – and he still is and I started the whole Web Journey in earnest. I would email chapters to those who would read them and I had moved from a paper based blog to an electronic one before the technology made it easier.

So I found it interesting to read about the Bebo Generation that Ewan was writing about.

cheers Plu

Web 13.0

Too much information well why not limit yourself to the Top 13.

I have been doing this with a lot of things I am interested in and now it is time to do it for  the web.

This is where it all started:

13 Inspirations

I find many things inspirational in all sorts of categories. I have picked 13 as the number- the day I was born

13 Best things I have done
13 Lessons learnt
13 Fiction books
13 Non Fiction Books
13 Movies
13 Web 2.0 Tools
13 Blogs
13 Biographies
13 Running -sport books
13 Sayings
13 To Do

Hi all,

Firstly thanks to James for tips on how to embed my Google Maps. Once I worked out how to get my API it was easy.

The semi retired, from blogging Scoble made an interesting post on the growing challenge of Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook and he believes they will “kick Google’s butt” within four years time. I don’t have time at the moment to look at the videos he links to. I’ll do that later.

I did go into Mahalo to see what sort of search engine it was and when I put in my standard test word “marathons” – for running and it had no links but there were links to our “friendly” Google when I put in “Facebook” I got a better idea of the potential.

I am a bit more familar with the term TechMeme but still need to see all the potential.

Funny thing in 1996 I was a fan of Lycos and did not think Google was any good. I am now more prepared to look at new things with a analytical eye for potential.

cheers Martin