Greasing the wheels of progress
For the past eight years we have been dealing with assignments submitted online through a locally developed system, EASE (Electronic Assignment Submission Environment), which was...
SITE 2015 – Las Vegas
I spent the first week of March (1 – 6) attending the 26th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)...
Can I walk the walk? Project-based design challenge in EDP4130
With interruptions it has taken longer than I’d hoped to revise the assessment package for the 2015 offer of EDP4130 Technologies Curriculum and Pedagogy. I...
Assessing some options
A bit more than a week into the new year and the beginning of semester is inching closer. It’s time to get some work done...
Tantalising Turnitin toolset for assessment
As is usual at this time of year I’m ‘spring cleaning’ and ‘renovating’ the course(s) that I will be teaching in Semester 1 (begins 2...
Dogged optimist?
Being an optimist sometimes seems to require a degree of dogged determination. It can be necessary to hang on, sometimes for years, in the hope...
Australian Computers in Education Conference 2014
This time last week I was in Adelaide to attend the Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC2014), the once annual but now biennial conference of...
23 tweets?
USQ 23 Things is into its second week and the topic is Twitter. The post for this week provides a basic description of Twitter, suggests...
SITE International Symposium – University of Canterbury
On Monday and Tuesday of this week I attended the SITE International Symposium 2014 Future focussed teacher education: Inspiring with digital technologies at the University of...
Digital paradoxes around openness
I just got back from from listening to Penny Carnaby from Lincoln University in New Zealand talking about Embracing the Digital Paradox! Exploring the impact of...