Archive for October, 2006
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
In a class of their own: teaching tailored for the guys
http://url.edna.edu.au/5t4R
A boys-only kindergarten class at Bowen Public School in Orange is one of the first in NSW and is part of a strategy to tailor teaching to the special learning needs of boys. "It is beneficial to the boys in ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
After my earlier rant, I went to talk to one of the developers of the community of practice. She suggested I outline my concerns as, while I was talking, she got a better idea of what I was talking about.
There appears to be a misconception about the ideas that ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
I'm a wee bit miffed at the moment. I just received the minutes from a core group meeting seeking to establish a community of practice within the faculty. We viewed the website at this meeting, which has space for blogs among other things. I questioned whether there ...
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
It's amazing how quickly you can become derailed. Yesterday, I had ideas flowing out of my ... well, lots of ideas. Today, I spent most of the morning in a conference organising committee. Perhaps I should have gone straight to my office from there, rather than detouring ...
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Is hypertext a thing or a process?
Is the web a thing or a process?
Is information a thing or a process?
Knowledge is more process than thing. Information is processed data. So it is a process. But it also has a certain thingness to it.
What happens when we start ...
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