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Probably well worth a read - Edupunk in Wikipedia

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Next Tuesday evening, April 29th, Get Up is inviting all Australians to ‘start a conversation and begin the process of turning reconciliation into reconcili-action.’
All Australians… Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous… are invited to attend or even host Reconciliation GetTogethers, where they get to yarn about reconciliation and “build a united country from the grassroots […]

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When students commence study at TAFE, it is our role as teachers and
coordinators to ensure that they have participated in an induction process.
An induction that not only identifies learning and assessment expectations,
rights and responsibilities – but also behavioral rights and responsibilities.
Specifically, students are asked to sign a document that states they have
viewed and understood the […]

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I’ve shown this video quite often to classes of young students - to stimulate conversations around body image and the media… however also felt a parallel duty to discuss sensible diets, lifestyles and choices (there’s a big difference between striving to be a thin model and a healthy human!).
This ‘parody’ video came hot on its […]

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This and other questions such as “Does this count towards anything?” are no doubt all too familiar to any practitioner working with youth.  I think these are very smart and prudent queries and ones which we all find ourselves asking as our lives become increasingly busy and complex.
Unless we can identify the worth of a […]

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For some things, they say the first time is always the best, and in many ways I’d say that about my first experience with wikis and blogs… all the way back in 2006 when I enjoyed my first LearnScope project.
I was coordinating a Get Skilled group of youth at risk, and I knew that my […]

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Before I introduce … over the next couple of weeks… blogs I have used with young people in courses – with very different degrees of success, I’d like to address the topic of blog etiquette.  
Blog etiquette is well-explored in EngageMe’s section on blogging which includes a great  collection of resources well worth checking out …
On […]

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How many times has someone said to you ‘Make sure you check out this resource…’ or… ‘There’s this great website that has so much great stuff!’?  
How many times have you later been disappointed when its not all its cracked up to be?? 
This isn’t one of those times… I’ll be really surprised if anyone thinks […]

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Young learners may find it interesting to download some music videos to their blog as a way of expressing some aspect of their identity or to get a message across.
The music video site, Webrats Music, provides the code that is simply posted in the blog post to display the video player and film clip on […]

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Although most readers of EngageMe do not work in a high school setting, the following points are relevant for teachers in all areas working with the ever increasing number of 15 - 19 year old learners in VTE:
Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students’ Motivation to Learn provides specific recommendations for helping high schools engage their […]

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