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...
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...
Refreshing & rebooting this blog
This blog has long been in need of refreshing. The earliest posts date from 2004. For a while, especially around 2005, I was mostly posting...
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...