Parallel Divergence Parallel Divergence Parallel Divergence is all about highlighting change and the differences in what we think are the same. There are discussions on life on this planet, religion, technology, political correctness and more. As well, there is a cartoon series that grows Articles
Corporate IT Support and the 21st Century User
2011-11-09 05:06:00 TRADITIONALLY, ICT Support is a regimented service, based on providing known or predictable support for a limited range of products in a carefully structured business environment. User s are supplied with access to standardised hardware systems and applications that have been approved in the standard operating environment and their range of access is limited according to ... More About: Corporate
Aortic Dissection and Me ? part one
2011-09-13 13:42:00 IT WAS November 1999. My then 72 year old father suffered from what he thought was heatstroke after a long day in the sun with friends at a picnic. He collapsed for a short while and complained that he couldn’t see, but after a short rest he felt well enough to drive home. Upon arrival, he ... More About: Life , Part
The Digital Education Real Illusion
2011-07-18 08:42:00 THE PROMISE. The challenge. The delivery. The difference. The Australian Digital Education Revolution was rightly heralded as a real gamechanger in school education nation-wide. When Kevin Rudd as opposition leader proclaimed, “This is the toolbox of the 21st Century” while holding up a laptop computer and subsequently promised access to a computer for every student ... More About: Internet , Illusion , Real
School Sign War
2011-04-19 06:19:00 Competition begins even at the earliest stages of life. As inspired by the Church Sign War. More About: Life , School
Thank God for Tim Minchin.
2011-04-09 13:23:00 …and Don Miguel Ruiz. I’ve now been living my life for many years by following Ruiz’s Four Agreements. First published in 1997, this book helped me to reinforce the logic and way of thinking I’d been developing through my own maturity and put it into four simple concepts that I could follow for life. Agreement ... More About: Religion , Humor , Life , God
Selling Yammer in NSW DET
2011-01-28 13:38:00 The New South Wales Department of Education and Training (NSW DET) is the largest education authority in the southern hemisphere catering for over 755,000 public school students across more than 2,200 schools. A further 504,000 students are enrolled in TAFE courses across 135 colleges in the state. Add to that 10 regional offices and TAFE ... More About: Selling
Well May We Say ?Advance Australia Fair?
2010-06-24 01:45:00 …because NOTHING will advance Julia Gillard. As the Australia n Labor Party prepares to vote in the country’s first ever female prime minister, I’m waiting for Kevin Rudd to come out with a quotation for the history books, but I doubt he’ll be echoing Gough Whitlam’s infamous and nonsensical quote from his dismissal in 1975. Before ... More About: Fair
iPad Changes Everything
2010-06-02 09:30:00 Every so often an invention comes along that is a game changer. Most of the really good ones like the Wheel, Electricity, Light Bulb and Plumbing pre-date me, but I am fortunate to live in a time where the rate of progress now is such that I can witness many of the newest breakthroughs first-hand. Arguably, ... More About: Internet
What is the Point of Life?
2010-03-26 12:36:00 Today I received a personal invitation from Aim for Awesome to share my thoughts on “The Point of Life ”. Vern said it could be “two sentences, or two pages – up to you”. Anybody who could so profoudly sum up the answer to this question in two sentences is a better person than me. To ... More About: God , Earth
Stop Phishing: Websites and Users Working Together
2010-02-05 12:46:00 PHISHING is a worldwide problem. Unscrupulous cyber-criminals, unsuspecting Internet users and apathetic web-service providers: It’s a volatile mix that will always benefit the crook. Hell, if the user is stupid enough to click on a link in an email message and gladly provide their user account details, they deserve what they get! image courtesy of ... More About: Life , Phishing , Websites , Stop
How many light bulbs does it take to change teaching?
2010-01-03 12:52:00 Everyday my email inbox alerts me to at least one teacher who has become a new follower on Twitter. Now while I’m definitely not the best ed-tech guy in Twitterland to follow, I like to think that for each of those emails, a light bulb has switched on somewhere and a teacher is working to change, or ... More About: Internet , Change , Teaching , Light
If God Was an Alien?
2009-11-07 12:33:00 The Parallel Divergence blog has been around for over three years now with sporadic articles being posted covering a wide range of topics, all carefully crafted with the intention of making the reader think, question and respond. I’ve enjoyed the large number of comments that most of my articles attract and I’ve learned from people ... More About: God , Hubble , Earth , My Thoughts , Alien
All We Are is Dust in the Wind
2009-09-25 13:06:00 SEPTEMBER 23, 2009: The Australian Outback visits Sydney – the nation’s largest city. It was Nature reminding Man that it cannot be taken for granted and will not be ignored. Photo by NSW Maritime Man often thinks he can do anything. Clearing jungles, re-routing rivers, building cities. But it’s nothing to crow about as we are cautioned that ... More About: Life , God , Earth , Wind , My Thoughts
You Better Start Swimmin? or You?ll Sink Like a Stone
2009-09-04 01:18:00 Today I “attended” an educational technologies conference. Well sort of. I wasn’t there, but then again, I was. IWBnet’s “Leading a Digital School” conference was on at the Gold Coast in sunny Queensland and while I was unable to be a delegate at the venue, I had the next best thing. Many of the delegates ... More About: Internet , Life , My Thoughts , Start , Stone
Is this Technically the Best 1:1 Rollout in the World?
2009-08-20 01:34:00 October 20, 2007 - Australian Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd is on the election campaign trail making a promise that made state governments, educational authorities and teachers shudder in their boots. While holding up a laptop which he referred to as “the toolbox of the 21st Century“, he promised to provide a computer to every high school student ... More About: Internet , Life , World , My Thoughts , Lenovo
Which Teachers Should get a T1 Laptop?
2009-06-26 12:59:00 The initial rollout of Laptop Computers as part of the New South Wales Digital Education Revolution is pretty clear-cut when it comes to students – ALL year 9 students will get one this year. But when it comes to teachers, the T1 rollout sees high schools receiving enough to cover only one-third of their staff. This begs ... More About: Laptops , Learning , Teachers
Lifelong Learning is NOT a 9 to 5 Job
2009-06-14 09:09:00 Late last year I attended my son’s high school graduation where speech after speech espoused the knowledge and skills that the Class of 2008 have gained over their thirteen years of schooling. As the students prepared for the next phase of their lives, it was heartening to hear that they all had been instilled with ... More About: Internet , Learning
I, Cyberbully.
2009-05-29 13:56:00 I’m not sure I quite remember when and how it started. He was just another boy in my class. But it seemed that everything he did just grated on me. No, I don’t want to listen to your music. Hell, that’s a stupid haircut. Put your hand down and shutup for god’s sake. I’m gonna ... More About: Internet , Life
What ICT Teachers Think?
2009-05-20 15:32:00 EVERY School Term for the past ten years, in conjunction with my team, I have been running Information Days for school ICT Coordinators. Over 250 teachers representing over 200 public schools consistently come to find out the latest information relating to ICT in school education in our little part of the world. Now while I’m usually the ... More About: Internet , Teachers
Uh oh. I think I have Swine Flu?
2009-04-30 14:12:00 I had a little nap after work, and when I awoke, I found myself covered in rashers. On the news they showed up the phone number for the Swine Flu information line, so I rang them up to get some advice. Problem was I couldn’t make out a word they were saying. All I heard ... More About: Humor
Still Waiting for the Revolution?
2009-01-26 11:40:00 Date Log: January 2009. Still waiting for the revolution. Australia’s Digital Education Revolution is coming. Even before it started, it was identified that the $1.2 billion promised was not going to be enough, so now with the injection of a further $807 million, Educational Authorities across the country are investigating hardware options including laptops and wireless connectivity. But ... More About: Internet , Waiting , The Revolution
?Clickers? or ?Virtual Clickers??
2009-01-08 14:18:00 For a few years now, Personal Response Systems (PRS) and Student Response Systems (SRS) have been making major inroads into classrooms and lecture halls, particularly in Universities and Colleges. These ?clicker? systems literally put engagement, motivation, participation and instant feedback into the palm of each student?s hand. In most classrooms today, the teacher asks a question ... More About: Virtual , Phil
?in my Spare Time, I write Software.
2008-08-17 03:33:00 That’s what I’ve been doing lately instead of writing more articles here at Parallel Divergence. So I thought I’d share with you my latest hobby project. It’s called Stu’s Double Jeopardy! version 3.1 - and as usual, it’s completely free for anyone who wants it. For a free product, it’s actually quite impressive and it’s already ... More About: Software , Internet , Time , Write
Australia?s Digital Education Revolution?
2008-06-01 10:46:00 NOT LONG after Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party was whisked into power in Australia after 12 years of conservative government, there were immediate and obvious differences that appeared. Rudd took no traditional “honeymoon” period, instead preferring to get straight to work on delivering his pre-election promises. One of these being the $1.2 billion “Digital Education Revolution “. During the ... More About: Internet , Life
Games With A Purpose
2008-05-17 13:02:00 Humans compute very differently to computers. Knowledge, Intelligence and Wisdom are not terms often attributed to computers. The closest descriptors in the computer world are Data, Processors and Recursion. They’re just not the same. A human could quickly look at a photograph and immediately identify all the elements in it - a man, a woman, a park bench, ... More About: Internet , Games , Purpose , Phil
Still Interested in a Class Blog?
2008-04-22 15:15:00 If you’re still listening, I’ll assume you’re still interested in creating a class blog at your school. In part one, we concentrated on WHY teachers and schools should be blogging. In part two, we looked at WHAT had to be done to ensure student privacy and security. Now, in this third instalment of the class ... More About: Internet , Web 2 , Blog , Class , Phil
Getting Started with Class Blogs
2008-04-21 13:30:00 In the article “Why Teachers and Schools Should be Blogging“, I discussed the reasons and benefits of blogging in the classroom, but for the blogging-novice, there are student privacy, security and policy concerns that must be considered. Assuming you took notice of the content of that first article, this one will take you through the first ... More About: Internet , Life , Web 2 , Blogs , Class
Why Teachers and Schools Should be Blogging
2008-04-12 09:48:00 MANY of our students leave school in the afternoon and go straight on-line as soon as they get home. They immediately start chatting with their friends on MSN, often holding down multiple conversations at the same time, seamlessly changing subjects and maintaining discussion threads as they swap from one chat window to the next. Their ... More About: Internet , Life , Schools , Web 2 , Blogging
The Needle and the Damage Done
2008-03-02 04:20:00 The unexpected demise of famous young people due to “accidental” drug overdoses has dotted modern history. Janis Joplin, John Belushi, River Phoenix, Kurt Cobain, and Heath Ledger all succumbed to an addiction that snatched away their lives when they were in their prime. While crystal-meth, crack and ecstasy are now the most “popular” of illicit ... More About: Music , Life , Neil Young , Damage
Heath Ledger: Dead at 28
More articles from this author:2008-01-22 23:43:00 January 22 2008: What a shocking, tragic waste. An all too stunning but brief spectacle - like a meteorite that flashes across the midnight sky. At only 28 years of age, a young man in the prime of his emerging career is dead. What can you say? What can anyone say? You keep clicking Refresh on ... More About: Movies , Life , Heath Ledger , Dead , Ledger 1, 2, 3 |
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