Posted in blogging, change, future, nz, schools, second life, technology on Jul 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Well no tweets from #herdsa. Why? Because there’s no freely available internet access in the conference rooms. We have broadband in the hotel rooms that works out at about $40 per hour; or we can pay for wireless in the conference lobby, but that doesn’t extend to the 9 different rooms that the conference is [...]
Posted in blogging, change, education, future, learning on May 16th, 2008 9 Comments »
Yesterday, we had a quick demo of Mahara by Mark Nichols as part of a wider day of information exchange. Mahara has been built as an eportfolio tool and appears to have taken some influence from Elgg. It contains a blog tool which has the ability to be kept private, shared selectively or [...]
Posted in blogging, learning on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s long been recognised that the tell me, show me, let me, division in learning effectiveness holds true. Often students are asked to do stuff that their lecturers don’t do – or at least not in ways that are visible to the students. The students are just told what to do and are [...]
