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Sydney Symposium – The Future of Teacher Education and School Leader Education

Published date August 12, 2010 Categories Teaching

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 USA, and included teacher education...

RCEE 2010 & RHEd 2010

Published date June 14, 2010 Categories Teaching

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 that implementing PBL is...

Teachers decide what changes they will make …

Published date June 2, 2010 Categories Teaching

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 to support a few...

Dealing with complexity – David Jones & the third way for education

Published date May 31, 2010 Categories Teaching

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 doing their own thing...

ACEC 2010

Published date April 9, 2010 Categories Teaching

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 major Australian affiliate of the...

SITE 2010

Published date April 3, 2010 Categories Teaching

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 conference I have attended since...

Network nightmare

Published date January 7, 2010 Categories Blog

This is the tale of dealing with the frustration of an intermittent WiFi connectivity issue and finding a solution. It’s 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 networking without cables in...

Digital Literacy

Published date October 1, 2009 Categories Teaching

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 of technological literacy having a...

Els Porxos

Published date July 4, 2009 Categories Blog

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, changed line and rode the...

Els Quatre Gats

Published date July 3, 2009 Categories Blog

Majella came to Barcelona prepared with a recommendation from Des Coates for a restaurant, Els Quatre Gats, that had been frequented by various celebrities, including Picasso. I had searched for it using Google on our first night in town and found it on the map but Majella had missed it when she tried to get there on her first day out...

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