Aug 24
This afternoon, after lunch (and those who teach will tell you the vagaries of THAT particular time) we gathered about 25 school staff and students for a chat with an interesting guest speaker via Skype – Ira Socol. If you don’t know Ira I recommend you check his blog and/or connect with on Twitter – …
Aug 17
One of the best times I’ve had in my teaching career was starting and teaching a Philosophy & Ethics course at a high school – even though the course was choked off in the end, read all about it. I had taught and truly enjoyed teaching P&E not because I think students should know Aristotle …
Aug 05
Thumbs up … If you are sensitive to expletives, please stop reading now. It’s Friday and I need a stiff drink. I have just spent first week as Advisory Teacher at our Big Picture school. This is about as remote as it gets from the quiet of a desk at Moodle HQ. It is also …
Jul 26
I am starting a new category on Human. Big Picture. A great model of education. Motto of Big Picture: “one student at a time in a community of learners.” In a nutshell: students select an area of passion and interest and they ‘go deep’ over a term, looking at the interest from different perspectives and …
Jan 31
Last week, I was invited to a high school as an ‘expert’ on using Moodle in the classroom. I had a series of 45-minute sessions to, as my brief read, ‘inspire’ each group of teachers (average size of about 15-20) over two days of PD to use their nice local Moodle & Mahara setup in …
Nov 05
Source: Cosmic Kindergarten http://www.flickr.com/photos/hexholden/3374990171/ Yesterday, I did a couple of hours of ‘parent duty’ at my 5 year old son’s kindy (abbreviation for ‘kindergarden’), helping out with learning tasks, minor cleaning and a few other bits. It was wonderful to see this group of 4 and 5 year olds loving being there, playing, sharing, inventing, …
Oct 19
Yesterday, I stopped at traffic lights and watched an angry old man telling off a kid of about 16 trying to eke a few cents by washing windows. I’m sure you’ve seen the sight alike. Shoulders dropped, expletives exchanged, and move on – to my car. I wound the window down to tell him that …
Oct 18
If you’ve been around the ed-tech universe lately, you’ve probably heard’em all: it is imperative we change education from the industrial revolution paradigm to a more creative, collaborative, connected endeavour digital technologies afford us to do it so easily – just look at us and so many kids doing this ‘Web Two Oh’ stuff and …
Oct 07
Today, I have been closely following the #mpos10 Twitter tag from the 2010 Moodleposium in Canberra. The next best thing to being there (but then again, I get to ‘go’ to many sessions simultaneously…) This afternoon, I found an absolute gem that I just have to share – a course called ‘Translating Learning Outcomes in …
May 22
Source: Panic Button http://www.flickr.com/photos/trancemist/361935363/ A story from this morning’s paper, in response to a recently publicised assault on a teacher by a student recorded on a mobile phone camera. …”State School Teachers Union president Anne Gisborne said measures were needed to ensure an urgent response when teachers were in danger. “In circumstances such as that …
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