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Tuesday Feb 09, 2010

Get students thinking. Sign up to participate in this MacICT project.

This is a project design to get students thinking differently.  We use LAMS software to teach students to become online teachers, from the planning through to the assessing learning. [Read More]

Wednesday Feb 03, 2010

Project Management Part 1

Task management:

  • We are using Basecamp.  The great things are the ease of setting up tasks, integration with Outlook and iPhone.  The not so great is it costs and it doesn't do meeting invites.

Innovation

Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, a non-profit initiative focused on designing and launching large incentive prizes, such as the Google Lunar X PRIZE, to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. This lecture entitled The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it Yourself! was delivered at the Quantum to Cosmos science festival at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.[Read More]

Tuesday Feb 02, 2010

Student Learning Design Project 2010

Last year we had such an exciting year putting the students in the driving seat using the technology.  I like this picture because you can look at it in two ways - in a way giving over control was a bit like sending students to tend to crocodiles.  But like the kid in this picture they showed strength of character, calmness and passion that makes you remember what teaching is all about.  Click here  to read a reflection by one of the teachers on the project.[Read More]

Monday Feb 01, 2010

Managing my information

Some new iPhone apps and ideas.[Read More]

Friday Jan 29, 2010

Project Management

Web-based project tools comparison.  Can you offer any advice?

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Friday Oct 02, 2009

Students Participating in the Learning Design Process

Thanks to everyone involved in the LAMS project.  Here is my final reflection.[Read More]

Blogging on the road

Notes on finding geotagging, blogging apps for my iPhone.[Read More]

Wednesday Sep 30, 2009

Social Booking with me.edu.au

Some cool features of the new social bookmarking functionality on me.edu.au.[Read More]

Friday Sep 25, 2009

Cognitive Load and Backchannel

A couple of ideas on managing the backchannel.

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