Centralised and alternative models of teaching development

I’ll be in pretty esteemed company on Tuesday 26th of July as the Pedagogy & Practice Group has a special session, Advantages and disadvantages of faculty-based and centralised teaching development activities. First and foremost will be Dik Harris and Yoni Ryan, should be a very good discussion. ***If you’re an academic in Melbourne with an …

From FDR to Podcasts – effective use of audio in online teaching and learning

Am presenting tomorrow on podcasting in higher education, specifically how you produce better quality online teaching and learning audio material, save enormous amounts of money and be pedagogically… all at the same time :o) Here’s the abstract, posted way back in the day and here’s the online flash presentation. Hopefully it won’t kill anyone’s aggregator… …

The Radio Conference 2005 – The cultural battleground of broadcast

Am currently at the 2005 Radio Conference at RMIT and enjoying it rather a lot I must say. Fascinating day yesterday thinking about micro-media, smallness, narrow-casting, communities, democracy and social conscience, sustainability, commercialisation and more. The more time I spend here and the more I think about what I’m about when it comes to social …

What if your interviewer / future possible employer finds your blog?

I fully second Tom’s assertion… with the addition of ‘some’ ;) Checkout the guy writing behind a pseudonym(!): “The pertinent question for bloggers is simply, Why? What is the purpose of broadcasting one’s unfiltered thoughts to the whole wired world?” Ahem, perhaps you might pay a little more attention to your own writing first… eh?

Pretty good news

It looks like the cancer is only developed in the tumour and hasn’t spread!!! Chemo starts the week after next and then probably an op in September. Thankyou so much for all your kind, thoughtful and amazing comments and emails. Have said it before and I’ll say it again, this is a pretty special place …

My Dad

My Dad is a pretty amazing person. He was the first kid from his school to ever go to University and completed a PhD in organic chemistry by the ridiculous age of 23-24. He lectured in Malta and then came back to England where he got a DipEd and eventually a Master of Education doing …