People manage to progress merrily through life, using seemingly archaic tools such as ‘email’ (good grief remember when that seemed innovative?) without understanding the etiquette involved.
With Web 2 tools being used in teaching and general communication, it is important for teachers to role model good ‘netiquette’ and also to familiarise their students with it as [...]
Recently, I had lunch with a dear friend. While we were chatting, she told me that she would dearly like to enrol into some computer lessons, so that she doesn’t lose touch with technology. I admire her for realising that this is a need in her life. I was thinking about her comments afterwards and [...]
Working in an institution gave me foundations!
In a past life, (for 28 years) I worked in the disability field, more specifically, with people with intellectual disability and autism. In the late 1970’s I left school in the country, arrived in Melbourne and began work in at Kingsbury Training Centre, a new ‘forward thinking’ institution for [...]
OK, I admit it, it is addictive and time wasting… but like a lot of Web 2 tools, it has it’s good side.
What is it you ask?
Farm Town is an application in Facebook. My daughter insisted I would love it and she was right.
Farm Town is application that allows users to plow, plant, [...]
Marketing and recruitment campaigns run hot in this competitive world. Do we deliver to our students what we say we will or are they left feeling disappointed with their expectations unfulfilled?
Just recently, I made a decision which seemed exciting at the time, but unfortunately things didn’t work out as I expected. It has got me [...]
My first experience with Twitter was 2 years ago when I was working on a film crew with an amateur production of a movie called Elindil’s secret. We used Twitter to contact each other during pre-production and production phases. It soon became a social interaction. In the past 6 months I have realised the potential [...]
At school I was often considered odd!
Well maybe I was/am…? I long suspected that in my childhood, certain abilities were seen as being more valuable than others for reasons that didn’t make sense. Thankfully, my mother understood my strange creative personality, as did the occasional teacher, although most didn’t! How do we develop our creativity [...]
Have you watched the movie Slumdog millionaire? Those who have, may have drawn the same parallels as I have. Those who haven’t watched the movie, can read this blog and then go watch it. Before you ask… no, I don’t have shares in the movie!
For those who haven’t seen the movie, Slumdog Millionaire is the [...]
Why have I chosen these tools?
I just LOVE editing movie footage and have recently worked on a movie crew of an amateur production of a movie. Serious movie makers certainly wouldn’t have used any of my recommended tools! So why did I choose them? Because time is precious for teachers! The [...]
Here is an update, for newcomers, on how my blog works. You can also read my ‘about me‘ page for more information.
Why Did I Start My Blog?
It was originally created to enable the participants of the DipVET e-learning units, at Swinburne University TAFE, Victoria or just for anyone to keep abreast of some of [...]
