Learning mainly
I have several times wondered what had happened to Kathy Sierra. We used her blog post Crash Course in Learning Theory with several courses to try to break people out of merely parroting “Constructivism, Behavourism and usually one other” with poorly examined definitions and application.
I stumbled upon this post from Gardner Campbells blog Gardner Writes: [...]
The initial rush is just about to die down here, with the start to courses here at Canterbury. here are just to many things backed up.
The Australasian Horizon Report
The Horizon report was interesting. The report is based around six types of emerging technology/applications that these guys (a panel of 45 on the advisory board) believe [...]
Basically, I can now look ahead. Our UCTL integration is complete (except that they are thinking of moving our new buddies at the Learning Skills Centre further away and out of the middle of Campus), we have a website (nearly releaseable), the LMS review committee is moving along, we have a wiki to play [...]
Confirmed. Ten minutes ago: 19th October 2007. Access Grid.
Venues: Auckland | Wellington | Christchurch | Dunedin
3.00pm. Snacks provided. 3 brief presentations, and plenty of chatter/feedback and conversation.
FAQ: What is the Access Grid? It’s a room somewhere in the uni with bandwidth to burn. Full duplex video.
How do I register? Details coming soon. Meanwhile, e-mail me. [...]
We have just had our UCTL Open Day, five 30 minute sessions and a keynote from Sandra Wills, the director of CEDIR They are a unit with some similar functions to ours.
Their byline:
Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources
The University of Wollongong is committed to excellence in learning and teaching.
CEDIR facilitates and [...]
Unfortunately, The Blogging challenge came one month too early for me. I had set September as my time to re-emerge into the world of blogging, internet accounts and social software after clearing my mind of this major project – the Online Workshop Toolkit (Hoped to have it sorted by the 31st August) – and [...]
Every now and then I get to do some things that are more fun than usual. Two workshops this year at e-fest.
Creative online facilitation for formal taught courses in the new age of blogs, wikis and RSS With Leigh Blackall
Communities of Practice 2.0: now we have Web 2.0 tools, what has changed for distributed [...]
I think a Professional Leadership Community approach has a lot to offer. But what do we need leadership in teaching for?
Brian Lord and Barbara Miller have this to say:
At present, we do not know enough about teacher leadership to make bold claims for its effectiveness in helping reforms go to scale or improving student [...]
In case you don’t know what GTD means, it’s the term from Dave Allen’s book and stands for Getting Things Done.
There are a bunch of web sites around to support this, in fact it’s become a cottage industry. New job, new roles and all that, I think I need a little help [...]
I now have a name plate on my door, and work is ramping up with calls about things WebCT for the new semester.
But I’m still not sure about workshops as a vehicle for professional development. I found this video on a website today, one of two CareerBuilder.com’s adverts at the super bowl. One of [...]
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