“All of your knowledge won’t amount to much if you don’t have a network of people to share it with and enough compassion for the people in that network to understand that your success is a direct result of their success.” Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo I’m in education because I want children/young …
Category archives: Development
Modelling Technology
Motivational speakers usually don’t impress me. Brought in by a well meaning leader, the “You can make a difference” inspirational monologue, usually leaves me more dispirited than before. “Do what I’m doing, stand in my shoes for a week, and then make this speech”, has always been my internal mantra to their 20 minute routine. …
Web Wednesday Chit Chat and Workshops
I’d like to experiment with hosting and running a set of alternate bi-monthly chit chats and workshops for people that want to share their digital stories and extend their use of the net. These events will take place on the first Wednesday of the month and will collectively be known as WebWed. Chit Chat At …
Testing times for an oEmbed ignoramus
Derek Keats is testing Chisimba, oEmbed and WordPress and I’ve offered to get my hands dirty and assist. I’m officially an oEmbed ignoramus (remember, I’m an ex-history teacher). But I’m also a networked learner. Search engines have allowed me to almost instantly explore an array of unknown fields, modular Word Press Plugins make me feel …
5 Ways to Open Access
It’s Open Access Week (19 – 23 October 2009), where the ideals of the Open Education Resource (OER) movement are highlighted. The movement believes that the Internet should be used to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Open Access aims to encourage and enable free sharing of content for the advancement and …
I hate learning from failure…
Shoot! Technologically – a failed lecture on Digital Portfolios. My old computer conked out and I was left with a chalkboard and a borrowed lap top (thanks Marco). I had wanted to introduce my students to the Digital Portfolio template and had put together for the Skills for a Changing World Programme and get them …
Starting with the end
I’ve always found it useful to start a course with the end product in mind. I also wanted to communicate that the Ed Tech course that I was introducing would be hands on (both behind the computer and at the desks). So I spent a good few hours groveling around the web, looking for a …
Different thinking
Kevin Durheim, Professor at the School of Psychology, and his student conference team have put the 2008 student conference online, and it has a few differences. From left: Jared Forbes, Thembelihle Zuma, Janine Upton & Farina Karim. As we planned this web site, the team and I decided (as one of the conference goals), to …
Different Planning
It’s energising to work with people that are Willing to try new ideas in front of their peers Want to explore better methods of working Unafraid of looking silly The psych masters conference team hadn’t published anything online before. Yet after a day and a half of workshopping, we decided that we were going to …