Attributing sources…

I’ve been notified today that I need to attribute the source of the new AC and AusVELS templates that I’ve developed under the Creative Commons licence it has.

“Reproducing the F–10 Curriculum (but not the AusVELS logo or VELS logo), is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY NC SA) licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/“

So: please note that any templates or units of work on this site which include any reference to VELS, AusVELS or the Australian Curriculum are hereby attributed to VELS, AusVELS or the Australian Curriculum. 

All the work that I have done on them is freely given, one professional to another, and may be copied, shared or modified as much as you like, but you’d better attribute the VELS, AusVELS or the Australian Curriculum bits if you do.

Please, say thank you!

In the last week between 200-300 have visited  this blog each day, most of them accessing the resources I have shared for Book Week.

None of them have bothered to say thank you.

It’s a bit disheartening.

Deadly Vibe Poll

MPPS staff, please take a moment to complete this short poll about the use of a resource that is sent to our school. Thanks.

Edna, the Australian Education Network

Edna (the Australian Education Network) is that network that all teachers want, and probably don’t know exists. 

You sign up, provide details of your interests and projects etc, and then join ‘communities’ that are interested in the same things.  (There are options to keep this info private, shared only with colleagues or registered users, so it’s pretty secure if you don’t want to tell the world about yourself). If you join a community,  then posts from members of the same community show up on your home page.

You can also add colleagues that you know, rather like adding Friends in My Space or Facebook.  Indeed, it’s rather like a Facebook for educators, but (a-hem) more focussed on education.

I’ve joined a number of communities: libraries, e-Learning and eLearning (somebody goofed, so you need to join both), curriculum planning, history teachers, podcasting, Wikis and SLAV – it was through the Wikis group that I found the excellent video about how to make a wiki in my previous post.

Anyone who’s interested in learning Web 2.0 should check it out.  Forums like this are very useful, but they only work if people make them work.

NB Apologies if you’re reading this twice: I’ve also posted it to my other blog because I think it’s so important!