I’m Head of Information Services at Toorak College in Mt.Eliza. This is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. I’m fascinated by Web 2.0 applications and their potential in educational settings. I launched myself headfirst into this world in 2008 and have found the experience to be transformative . It’s my aim to share what I discover with you through this blog.
I’m currently involved in the International cohort of Powerful Learning Practice , a job embedded professional development initiative begun by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson. I assisted them in the formation of the Australian arm of this cohort and Toorak College is the host school for face to face meetings.
I’m presenting at the SLAV conference in March and at the Australian College of Educators Digital Fair in April.
You can follow me on Twitter: jennyluca
You can contact me via my gmail: jenny.luca1@gmail.com
29 Comments
January 13, 2008 at 1:58 am
Hi Jenny, welcome to the world of blogging – and nice to see another Head of IS in Australia hitting coming online! Hope we can collaborate some time in the future. Meanwhile, enjoy the adventure – I sure have!
January 13, 2008 at 7:17 am
Hi Judy,
I’ve been reading your blog and am really impressed with what you have achieved – you’re an inspiration. Thanks for the encouraging comment. I’d really like to work with you this year – I know you’re starting at a new school – I’m sure they will be open to new ideas as they are no doubt well versed about your reputation and all you have contributed to the online world. Hopefully I’ll be able to join you in some collaborative projects. I’m going to be teaching a Yr 7 English class this year as well as running the Library (my choice). I think having a class will help me to implement some Web 2.0 initiatives that I can then introduce to the rest of the school – perhaps we can forge some links via this.
I think this is going to be a real adventure and I’m looking forward to where it may take me!
February 6, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Hi Jenny,
I watched the IdeaBlob video on your blog – tres cool! I actually posted my idea on the site and would be interested to know what you thought
You can go to huyuno.com (if you want) and click on the logo, which will bring you to my ideablob page. Thanks !!
Best,
Brennan
February 7, 2008 at 8:06 am
Nice blog
Just a warning, signing up at blog sites get rather addictive over time…
February 18, 2008 at 3:48 am
Hi Jenny, This is one way of keeping in touch with you. Good to see you are doing something in your spare time!
Bernadette from JPC
March 4, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Hi Jenny, just got onto your blog through twitter. It’s great that you have designated 2008 as your year of discovery. I am also teaching Year 7 English and hoping for collaboration. From another Melbourne edublogger, and as of this week, mother of a school librarian.
May 21, 2008 at 2:07 am
Hi Jenny,
I have seen your name nearly everywhere I have been over the past several weeks…Australians are the nicest people I have ever met…I too believe that 2.o technologies are the future of education…so I look forward to keeping up with you here, twitter, and other places like minded educators go…Nice Blog!
June 9, 2008 at 8:53 pm
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June 11, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Hey Jenny
Just caught your last comment over at John Connell’s blog about bloggong being the besy PD you’ve had and just wanted to say ’snap’ to that.
Really enjoy your work here – it is kind of ‘Goldilocks’ length writing (I tend to ramble) not too long and not too short – giving great explanation to the apps and the memes you discover.
Just Diigo’ed visual serch engines – nice tip – putting you on my reader you are one to watch
Cheers
Gilbert
July 15, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Congratulations for the site. Keep up the good work. Cheers,
Alan Tumulty.
July 23, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Hello Jenny,
Please check out our new (non-visual!) search engine, Very Recent:
http://veryrecent.com
We do Buzz Search, the old school way…by showing TEXT CONTENT.
Shouts out from Berlin,
Tom Churm
August 29, 2008 at 10:10 am
Mrs Luca, i was wondering if you knew the name of the youtube video that has a teenage boy sitting at a table and his dad is asking him all of these questions and the boy will reply like dunno, nothing, maybe. could you please tell me i really need to know.
September 11, 2008 at 8:32 am
Hi Jenny,
Would love to feature your blog on the new SLAV blog ‘Bright Ideas’. Would you please contact my email address and I will outline the plans.
Thanks.
September 28, 2008 at 1:08 pm
i like that kind too, my favorite is the one with waffers inside.
September 29, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Thanks for the comment, and that must not be funt o not remember the punchlines!! Send me a joke and I’ll post it on my blog!
October 19, 2008 at 9:25 am
Jenny Luca,
I found your name on “Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter” and wanted to reach out to you. I visited your Twitter page and read through your blogs.
My name is Gomathi and I am the Market Development Manager for Englishcafe. We are currently in beta and could use some feedback on the site. Will you help us out by giving us a quick peek or tweet? In the very near future we will be launching a program where Tutors can make money on our site as well. I may circle back to you when that launches.
Can we touch base soon?
Gomathi Shankar
Market Development Manager
Englishcafe
http://www.englishcafe.com
Englishcafe is the premier English learning community for global professionals.
October 23, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Jenny – awesome blog…inspiring reading…thank you. I too am a teacher (maths, science mostly atm), 3rd year (after a career as a Mech Engineer/Industrial Designer), I also took on year 7 co-ordination this year (yes, I *am* crazy LOL!). I have just been posting to an international parents group about *why* teachers promote emotional literacies and self-discipline (as opposed to the punitive, coercive methods most of us gen X probably experienced)…in context of the changing world we are preparing our kids for. I will be interested to see if the replies reflect a deeper understanding of the future world than we oft give them credit for (as I was reading earlier). I look forward to reading more.
P.S. lsaccuzzo (Aug 29) it’s called The Teenage Song and was written and performed by some talented sods from North East Victoria (from a little town where I am also lucky enough to live
Cheers,
lou
October 26, 2008 at 1:28 pm
jenny , you stole my thunder , i was searching for claytons drink in referrence to the meeting with the Commander and Interim Prime Minister in Fiji today , the 27/10/08 . But you’ve already made a referrence to the same drink !
Bugger , it , not you jenny !
October 28, 2008 at 1:42 am
HI MRS LUCA. i just wanted to tell you that robyn and i had a bakestall on the weekend for dollar for deeds and we raised $62.05!!!!!!
hope the money can go to a good cause!!!
from laine and robyn.
November 20, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hi,
Just dropping you a note ………
I mentioned your products/services to my subscribers in my Education Rebel ezine, which is attached: http://workingtogether2makeadifference.ning.com/
You can see that issue by clicking the link below and then look for you business name.
http://educationrebel.com/EducationRebelEzine-Nov30-content.pdf
Hope you and you families have an excellent holiday season,
Jack
January 4, 2009 at 1:45 pm
If 2008 was your year of discovery, what will 2009 be?
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January 24, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Thank you for your very complimentary post. I wanted to post a comment on your blog but it says I must be logged in to leave a comment. I don’t have an edublogs account so can’t do this. You might want to change this so that people can post comments who aren’t running their blogs using edublogs. You’ve analysed my style very well. I do think the less formalised style of writing that I use has helped to develop my audience. I think you need to share some of yourself when you are writing. People get to ‘know you’ without ever having met you. Good luck with your blog.
May 28, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I wanted to take this chance to thank you SOOOOO much for your hard work and inspiration. Jenny and the 80+ young ladies who gave up their free time to take a stand and make some noise for Daraja Academy, are example “A” that this world is getting better every day.
KEEP IT UP! and please don’t forget about us.
Jason and Jenni Doherty
Founder of Daraja Academy
May 28, 2009 at 10:37 pm
We are amazed at the wonderful work you and Jenny are doing at Daraja in Kenya. Don’t worry, we won’t forget you!! Our girls are keen to start communicating with your girls, so we need to get that organised. There’s our next step.