John Larkin

Location
Wollongong  Australia
Organisation
St Joseph's Catholic High School
Sector
School Education
Interests
web2, Professional development, educators use of new technologies, blogging, instructional design, eLearning, ICT education, web2ools

About Me

Hi there, I teach history Years 8 - 12 and I also provide PD for educators whenever possible. I have an interest in the convergence of teaching, learning and technology.

What I've been doing

07 Jul
Wikipedia verifies via Google search too
Saw a tweet by Al Upton this afternoon. As follows: alupton HELP need help to validate the Fiery
06 Jul
Swurl developers respond to earlier post
This morning I blogged about Swurl. I praised the tool. It has a clean, uncluttered interface and
 
Gary Stager on my mind
Straight off the press. Lazy Sunday. Breakfast. Reading yesterdays newspaper. Few blog posts read
 
Sungei Buloh in the rain ~ January 2003
Sungei Buloh Wetlands, Singapore. Malaysia in the distance. The other day my good friend Siva twe
 
Swurl ~ the good news and not so good
During the last week read a few reports about Swurl. I have some good news and a point that I thi
05 Jul
QR Code put to the test
Just completed an iChat with Westley Field. He is a much traveled chap. He is in London doing thi
 
QR Codes
First learnt about these a few weeks back. Read about them in a newspaper somewhere and then made
 
Three cool applications
From time to time as I scan the Twitter feeds I see the adjective cool pop up in reference to thi
02 Jul
Mark Pesce on Hyperpolitics
This evening I was multi-tasking a little, watching TV and keeping an eye on Twitter. Mark Pesce
 
Liberation
Liberation One of the best decisions I have made recently was to follow my gut feeelings and rena
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John Larkin's Whiteboard

On 9 Feb 2008 John Travers wrote
Interested in you Leopard slide show John: can you show this to us some way? I'm interested in the cover-flow view. I'll be a leopard owner in a few months!
On 12 Jan 2008 John Travers wrote
John, liked your link to Langwiches: you might like to add it to the Digital Storytelling Community: I'm a strong enthusiast for Voicethread and liked the tutorial on the site.
On 30 Dec 2007 Nick Lothian wrote
Hi John, Yes - spam control is needed and will be coming soon. Thanks for your feedback - I've written some notes on some of it: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/nlothian/2007/12/30/meeduau-feedback/
On 27 Dec 2007 John Larkin wrote
One can add a message to anyone's whiteboard once they are added as a colleague. Would moderation be an idea or some level of control? Could spam be an issue?
On 27 Dec 2007 John Larkin wrote
I deleted the del.icio.us feed. It clutters the data above a little and the faqs mention the feeds should not be third party materials.
On 27 Dec 2007 John Larkin wrote
I have added my blog feed and del.icio.us bookmarks feeds.