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Just spent another evening with a great bunch of women learning about JavaScript as part of the Oz Girl Develop IT program for 2011.
Discussing the plans for this year’s Oz Develop IT with Pamela Fox and Cathy Lill tonight it became [...]
The fight for women to get the vote was a monument to cooperation, ingenuity and collaboration on the part of many women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These women educated themselves and their peers about women’s issues and agitated for women’s rights. And the women of Australia [...]
As they say to introduce this latest in the TED stable:
“How are women and girls reshaping the future? The first-ever TEDWomen invites men and women to explore this question in depth. From the developing world, where a single microloan to a single girl can transform [...]
Girl Develop IT Sydney kicked off well last night with thirty eight students, led by the indomitable Pamela Fox and a number of teaching assistants.
Women from all sorts of jobs and backgrounds came along to grapple with the basics of web development – with the [...]
I’ve been a big supporter of the Plan Because I am a Girl campaign – if you haven’t shared your story do it now!
The other day @uskovic shared this video about the Girl Effect with me:
You Can Help Change the World [...]
There are a lot of women who don’t like to be called a girl. It’s their choice. I don’t mind it and have even been known to refer to myself as a girl – usually as a geek girl.
The interesting thing here in Australia is that I’m pretty much [...]
In business school we all learned to use the same analytical tools – S.W.O.T., P.E.S.T., P.E.S.T.E.L., BCG Growth Share Analysis, Competitor Analysis, Porter’s 5 Forces, etc.
But at dinner the other night, while chatting to some “kidults” (as they were introduced by their parents), we discussed [...]
The digital revolution is already here and it is changing the way people expect to communicate or share knowledge and information. Educators are facing technology changes together with changing expectations from students about the use of technology in an educational context.
A key challenge for teachers is also the delivery [...]
I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since it was there that I was exposed to dangerous ideas from philosophers, historians and fiction authors. The local, school and [...]
I love going along to the TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute Showcases because they always have demonstrations of innovative uses of technology. It is great to hear practising teachers share how they are using technology to improve outcomes for their students and also to make their own jobs [...]
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