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Adelaide River to Daly Waters: through the windscreen

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  Adelaide River to Daly Waters: through the windscreen Through the windscreen, the drive south from Adelaide River toward Daly Waters reveals the continent’s layered past, unfolding mile by mile. The journey is not merely a passage through space; rather, it is a confrontation with history itself, where the frontier’s rupture transforms the land into a living narrative of loss, power, and the slow, stubborn return of what was once taken. Once you cross that violent threshold, where modern roads carve through the repressed ghosts of the interior, you can never see the Australian outback the same way again. The bitumen transforms: no longer a mere ribbon of asphalt, but an audacious thread of technology stretched tenuously over ancient, dreaming ground. Southward, beyond the iron-stained ridges of Pine Creek and the sun-scorched Barkly plains , the story changes. Here, the land speaks of colonial bravado undone, of cultures and nations ground and reformed by force. Telegraph stat...
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Starting off with Technology

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Starting off with Technology
These 3 sites can help Teachers who are uncertain with social networking and Technology in the classroom. It can now appear ever so mind boggling due to the many many options and the options keep growing.

How do teachers put it all together?





Using Technology: Practical Applications on Prezi


http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/intro.html is a great place to start

PART 1 - THE TOOLS
Introduction


Twitter

Getting started with Twitter


Facebook

Getting started with Facebook
Creating a Facebook group
Creating
a Facebook fan page

Google Buzz
Getting started with Google Buzz
Creating
a Google Buzz group

Multiple accounts and networks
Synching networks
Managing
multiple accounts and networks


PART 2 - THE BASICS
Building Community
Communicating
with others
Sharing
links and resources
Keeping
up to date
Problem
solving
Serendipitous
learning


PART 3 - USE IN LEARNING

Presentations, Events,
Classes & Training
Using the backchannel at an event
Incorporating
the backchannel in a presentation
Live
presentation streaming
Lectures,
classes & workshops
Feedback
and quizzes

Micro-Learning
Micro-learning
Daily micro-learning
Synchronous learning

Other activities
Collaborative writing
Brainstorming
Scavenger
hunts
Learning
games
Group
projects
Research
Running
a book club








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