Posted in education, learning, nz, schools on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
New Zealand has an Enviroschool scheme where it tries to support schools with sustainability. One of the local schools here in Hamilton has just been on the telly detailing what they have been doing.
They started a garden to grow veg and teach the children elements of sustainability. The project grew as they decided [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, technology on Jun 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Edupunk seems to be the word on everyones lips at the moment - well at least those that are talking about it!
See D’Arcy Norman; Lesley Madsen Brookes; Stephen Downes; Brian Lamb; Doug Noon
A conjunction coined by Jim Groom, however, as both commentators and protagonists seem to be agreeing, creating a name and a definition runs [...]
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 change, education, future, learning, schools, technology on May 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Have been doing a lot of reading recently and assessment is a theme that keeps recurring. Ewan McIntosh and David Muir both blog a recent talk by Stephen Heppell where he revisits the idea of assessment equivalence. I heard him talk on this theme some time ago and I don’t think that the [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, technology on Apr 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
A few days ago, Christopher Sessums posted an article about a talk he had been giving on social networking. In his post he notes
At the end of my Social Networks talk, I asked participants what they would like to see in a social networking application. A young undergraduate student promptly raised his hand and [...]
Posted in education, learning, nz, schools, technology on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Had some wide ranging conversations about various aspects of education in New Zealand today. All are anecdotal and several relate to personal experiences of my family.
Before we emigrated to NZ, we read up about what opportunities there were in learning, elearning, learning technology etc. The government made a big thing about how NZ was at [...]
Posted in learning on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
In a post on workload management strategies for elearning, Christopher Sessums notes the following from Ragan & Terheggen
Start with a course development model
Define your objectives, learning outcomes, exit competencies, and an explanation of how the learning process will be evaluated.”By developing a course development model at the begining of the course authoring process, faculty members [...]
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 [...]
Posted in learning on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The Montreal Gazette reports that a Ryerson Poly student may be penalised for some coursework after setting up a Facebook group for his class peers. Students were apparently told that the work had to be their own individual work. The lecturer had even set slightly different questions for each student. The discussion [...]
Posted in future, learning, second life, technology on Jul 12th, 2007 No Comments »
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Katharine Berry is getting universal plaudits for the development of a web-based Second Life viewer. It uses Ajax and can cope with major functions like maps, chat and teleport but is not yet dealing fully with inventory or IM.
What I find interesting is the deluge of interest that has been shown in this development. Katherine [...]
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