Am in the process of creating a new blog to be called “Is my digital footprint ready for teaching?”. The following describes the why and what and records some initial planning/design. Keen to hear any suggestions folk have. Why? This idea is killing two birds with one stone. First, is the need to demonstrate some […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Following up on a broader research idea the following paragraph summarises a nascent, more specific idea a colleague and I are stumbling toward. It fits within the broader agenda. Suggestions, volunteers, pointers and criticisms welcome. For now it’s just a single paragraph. Open source education is seen by Davidson and Golberg (2009) as one of […]
If you hadn’t realised by now, this blog is often used as a notebook to record ideas in development. This is by no means complete, but the record is there. Did you catch the high buzz word content in the title of this post? It can possibly mean only one thing, academics and grant writing. […]
As the semester starts warming up the online students are starting to post their introductions using Popplet (essentially a simplified Prezi, but one which is being a little unreliable today), Prezi or other tools. One of the interesting threads that run through many of these posts has been the amazement at how young children, as […]
Almost 20 days ago I started thinking about the design of the Moodle (1.9.x) site (called a StudyDesk at my institution) for my course. As O-Week draws to a close, the following describes the current final product. Note: The focus here is on the (pragmatic) physical design and layout of the site with just a […]
So after three weeks at the new institution and busy thinking about how I’m going to do something interesting with my course design I find out that EOIs for a fairly large and beneficial set of research grants is due in a week or so. Bugger. No way I’m going to get my head around […]
Another weekend and I’m thinking about EDC3100, and thanks to an IT maintenance day bringing Moodle down I have the time to post here. The following is an attempt to conceptualise and describe what I hope might become the replacement for the lecture/tutorial model that is dominant in this course. It is informed by/borrowed from […]
Do you know of any “dating services” for online courses? That is, a service by which a cohort of (often 100+) students can put in a few details (e.g. I’m an early childhood pre-service teacher, I’m technically competent etc., I’m interested in X) and on request the software will match up the students in groups […]
The following tells the story of how and why I designed the following “Web 2.0″ (and yes, I am very reluctant to use that term for a range of reasons but will for a range of other reasons) introduction of myself. The following image (click on the image to see a large photo) shows the […]
This Chronicle-based blog post titled “Four things lecture is good for” is resonating with a lot of people. At least judging by the retweets etc. I wonder if the article really should be title “Four things that make lectures (or any teaching mode) better”. I can see why the post resonates. The author (@RobertTalbert) proposes […]
