There’s a new eLearning design challenge up… interesting one too… scoot over there to offer your solution and see if you can better mine :o) Consider yourself challenged! “This Challenge was suggested by Susan Dilan, who lives in Puerto Rico. Recently her government has funded a campaign to encourage the populace to be nice to …
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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 …
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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… …
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Yet another new design…
I never really liked my take on the Way-Too-Clean design (although I really like the current IBeBloggin’ design) and am far too fond of playing around with look and feel to stay still for long so have gone and done it again. New design is based around the Man~ja theme and am sure I will …
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 …
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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 …
Upgrades and WordPress contact form plugin!
Thomas has been doing some serious backend work of late (do graphic designers do backend stuff ;) and has put in some interesting stuff, especially this nice simple WP contact form plugin. Good stuff!
Using podcasts in education
If you’ve been a reader for a while you’ve probably heard me banging on about how podcasting can save an enormous amount of money and drastically improve the quality of online audio for teaching and learning online…. well, here’s the most recent version which concludes my blogsavvy week of podcasts. Should be called your professional …