Farewell to Annette

Sadly, we farewell Annette at the end of this term as she leaves to take up a position at Flinders, Traralgon. Annette and her family moved to Traralgon two years ago and we do feel privileged that she was willing to do the Traralgon-Sale commute for so long.Annette has been a most valued member of our ISC team over the past six years and her contribution to our school community has been outstanding.  Annette's  intelligence,enthusiasm and natural aptitude for applying technology in an educational setting has played a very important part in cementing the eSupport role of the ISC.We will of course miss her but wish her well in her new role as Curriculum Administrator at Flinders.

Guidelines For Using Social Media

The Victorian Department of Justice has just created the excellent video below about appropriate use of using social media in the work situation.  Although it targets Department of Justice employees its messages are just as relevant for schools and students using social media

Best 2012

Best of the Web Nov. 2012 from Richard Byrne

 

Thank goodness for experts like Richard Byrne from the "Free Technology for Teachers" blog who keeps us updated on the best new resources he has discovered . Richard has his finger on the pulse  and he  has just released his Best of the Web for 2012. With the exception of about 8 tools, Richard shares 61 new tools that he has used for the first time this year!He must have been a busy boy!Click on the link above to view his compilation.

For a bit of fun visit the site below

Top 12 Trends in Australia
http://blog.mccrindle.com.au/_blog/The_McCrindle_Blog/post/Top_12_trends_of_2012/

Make Your Own Infographics

Although I dedicated  a whole post  back in August to the growing popularity of infographics, I thought that you might be interested in this easy to follow  tutorial from the School Library Journal. It shows you how to use the tools easelly and infogr.am  to make your own infographics from scratch.The tools are free and would enhance any tasks that require students to depict data