Jul 21
Quick slideshow… This is what I tweeted at the end of 2011 Australian Moodle Moot 2011: To sum up #mootau11: We flew First Class! Thank you @ns_allanc [Allan Christie] and @netspot crew. It was truly wonderful. Great ideas, great people, great venue, great organisation, great community vibe. It was a three day Moodle love-in. Highlights …
Dec 19
It’s over! Our four day school Web 2.0 Expo extravaganza over the last few days of school year was largely (and I don’t use the word lightly) adjudged as ‘a success’, ‘eye opening’, ‘interesting’, ‘informative’, ‘fun’, ‘enjoyable’, ‘a bit crazy’, ‘unusual’ by a range of people around the school (eclectic and funky as our cover …
Dec 15
Today, we kicked off a Web 2.0 Expo at our school with two main aims. The first one is to make staff and students see and reflect on the changes in online world that are rapidly transforming and building communities on and offline…and all with a slightly pointy educational bend (see clip below). The second …
Dec 10
I can’t claim some sort of exclusive on this line, I think it belongs to Michael Wesch, collected through Twitter (where else!). But I just had to put it in a strip comic this afternoon. GoAnimate.com: Real World by moodlefan The tall person is meant to be a teacher, the small one a student. On …
Jul 28
There are some teachers who are just better than others. In many ways, with many people, many colleagues. No secret really, observed many times. So why should they (not) be paid more? There are many cases of (failed) merit pay schemes for teachers around the world. They pretty much show that merit pay for teachers, …
May 05
This is an attempt to organise many thoughts after spending an amazing weekend with a number of passionate and wise ‘ed-tech’ people at and after the SICTAS symposium in Sydney last weekend. It may have been an ‘echo chamber’ a little at times but…it felt wonderful. The gathering was passionate, informed, engaging, motivating and hopefully …
Mar 18
Good news travels fast. ‘Sticky’ ideas even faster. In her recent comments, fellow teacher and moodler Mary Cooch (known also as @moodlefairy) mentioned how the staff at their school spend a couple of minutes of their weekly meetings talking about their use of Moodle in the classroom. I loved the idea and in the brief …
Jan 31
Survived the two days of ‘teacher development’ before the students fill the classroom on Monday! The standard PowerPoint overkill on compliance, procedures, initiatives, scores etc breached just about every rule of good communication, so I decided to cut my presentation from 30-45 minute mix of ‘tech stuff’ and animation (see the intended icebreaker monkeys below, …
Dec 15
Gazump. A situation in which the price for real estate or land is raised to a higher price than what was previously verbally agreed upon.* (1) This week I lost half of my job. The half I formally started this year and was promised to go for another year, the half that gave me a …
Oct 09
If you are trying to introduce Moodle to teachers or staff at your school or a similar organisation, you have or you will probably hear at least some, if not all, of the five statements below in some shape of form. I deliberately called these ‘myths’ because they simply do not stack up when compared …
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