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12 Aug 2010
From 26 July 29 July I attended the 2010 Sydney Symposium The Future of Teacher Education and School Leader Education at Macquarie University. This was a small working conference to which I had been invited by the organiser, and former USQ colleague, Prof. Ian Gibson. Attendees came from Australia, New Zealand and the [...]
14 Jun 2010
Last week I attended the 3rd Regional Conference on Engineering Education (RCEE 2010) and Research in Higher Education (RHEd 2010) held at the Grand Margherita Hotel in Kuching, Sarawak. I was invited to deliver a plenary presentation on the challenges of implementing problem-based learning (PBL) in the university environment. I developed the presentation around the idea [...]
02 Jun 2010
David Jones spotted my comment on his post about the need for a third way and writes about the need for academics to feel in control of change in teaching and learning. That links with some reading I was doing yesterday in the process of preparing for my S2 course. I was digging around for material [...]
31 May 2010
David Jones has posted an interesting piece about how he sees an alignment between the third way popularised in politics and what might be needed in education: The need for a third way The Weblog of (a) David Jones. He lines up the conservative/republican (in US terms) block with the traditional approach based on teachers [...]
09 Apr 2010
From 5 April – 9 April I was in Melbourne to attend the Australian Computers in Education Conference. ACEC is held every second year under the auspices of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) which comprises the relevant teacher professional associations in each of the Australian states and territories. ACCE is itself the [...]
03 Apr 2010
From 27 March – 4 April I travelled to San Diego, California, to attend the 21st International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). With around 1200 delegates representing at least 56 countries, despite the global financial crisis this was still one of the best attended and the most international SITE [...]
08 Jan 2010
This is the tale of dealing with the frustration of an intermittent WiFi connectivity issue and finding a solution. Its almost 5 years since we moved into our present house. Because I had been experimenting with WiFi Internet sharing using my iMac as a base station in our previous house I was confident we would manage [...]
30 Sep 2009
At the 29 July meeting of Academic Board there was discussion of a proposal to change the document describing qualities of a USQ graduate to include mention of digital literacy. I remember the discussion clearly because there was a proposal that digital literacy be replaced by technological literacy, against which I spoke on the basis [...]
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Hi Peter - you can add your RSS feed from your Delicious account by going to Edit Profile and then the Feeds tab. Paste in your delicious RSS feed and tick the box to have them added to your My Bookmarks area and save. Let me know if you need any help :)  -  Alison Hall
04 Jul 2009
I arrived back at the hotel from the conference shortly before 7:00 pm. After Majella and Sam had described their adventures for the day we set out for Sagrada Familia which they had seen already and recommended as one sight I should see. We rode one Metro line to the next station from Placa Catalunya, [...]

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