Stumbled upon this vidcast from Canadian educator Dean Shareski given at the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Dean’s nicely produced 25′ video discusses the importance of design in education. He’s even produced a teaser trailer on YouTube. Now that’s innovative! Dean roams across design principles introducing some innovative ways of thinking about classroom space as well
Continue reading ...I came across this neat way of taking notes some time back, but it’s come back again like a boomerang! Perhaps it’s the time of year when students in Queensland are starting to eye the calendar nervously. The jacaranda trees are putting out the first blue blooms … a traditional sign that exams are round
Continue reading ...I’m packing for the AUC Conference starting tomorrow. I’m packing anxiety too. Why? Because I haven’t done the killer Keynote slideshow to accompany the paper to be delivered Tuesday. So it was nice to re-read the marvellous Merlin Mann’s posting How I made my presentations a little better of some time back … and to
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I’m being mocked by the hubris of a blogpost last week … something about making a habit of blogging etc. Just to keep faith in myself and you, dear reader, here are some quick observations from my part of the world and symptomatic of the busy week in which I find myself right now. Yes
Continue reading ...The week started so well … a first-ever videopost, the 31 Days were over, tidying up time in blogland had began. What could go wrong for Superblogger? The word hubris springs to mind … me thinking I could use the learnings from the 31 Days challenge to leverage the build of a new blog I’d
Continue reading ...Now that I am a fully-fledged member (survivor) of the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge team, I am ready to build a blog based on what I have learned since August 1. I thought that this could be a good personal challenge for me. The last few blogs I’ve built were from the
Continue reading ...A frustrating day today struggling with a site that wouldn’t respond, and a much-admired open-source blog platform that gave me cause for thought and a stiff drink. Ning, a social network platform, set up to provide a discussion platform for a group, simply would not respond to request after request by me over the weekend
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