Creating digital solutions in EDP4130
It’s late January. I started writing this earlier in the month, soon after I was back in my office and thinking about first semester courses. After a...
Muddling through Moodle books
I want to be a good corporate citizen but that can be difficult when the tools (like a web server) that enable you to do...
It’s time to MELLO
For one thing I’m about to go on annual leave for 3 weeks and plan to mellow out a little after I’ve dealt with a...
Open Education Resources & Practice
I’m working on a project with a colleague from UQ and two others here at USQ to explore how we can open up practice and...
SITE 2016 – Savannah, Georgia, 21–25 March
I attended SITE 2016 with financial support from the Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts. I’m grateful for that support and for the patience...
Coding & photos – vacation rumination
Coding has become a hot topic in educational circles. In a previous post – The second coming of coding: Will it bring rapture or rejection? –...
Teachers, design and technology
David Jones (@djplaner) posted a piece, Teachers as designers of technology enhanced learning?, earlier today. Although he didn’t identify us, I am one of the...
The second coming of coding: Will it bring rapture or rejection?
Coding, aka computer programming, made it into the headlines earlier this year when Federal Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, asked Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, whether he...
Down and up the greasy pole
It seems there is no constant but change. I was feeling pleased with myself over my success with a Greasemonkey script to produce simple statistics...
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...