Archive for 2008

Shifting teaching and learning

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Now that it's the end of one semester and there is a large break til the beginning of the next, I really want to think about what I want to achieve in teaching and learning over the next year.  I have so many ideas, some based on the work I ...

Reflecting on Collaborative Assessment

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I'm about to start the dreaded task of marking the wiki for Mobile Workforce Technologies.  I struggle with this every time.  I want to encourage student collaboration, but, when it comes to marking it, I want it easy to work out who did what so I can award a 'mark'.  ...

Writing, the numbers don’t add up

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I seem to have spent much of this week writing.  Numbers.  In spreadsheets.  Yes, marking marking marking.  I just finished one lot yesterday, went to a panel on Podcasting this morning and now I'm shepherding in another lot of assignments.  Oh, joy! The weekend is looking pretty full of numbers.  Reading ...

Progress - I can have it?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Yesterday, I received permission to use an image in a paper.  That may not seem such a big thing, but given the image is a trademark, and one that is heavily protected, I feel quite ecstatic.  All I have to do now is check the formatting of the paper and ...

Senator Conroy doesn’t want you to see …

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

this pair of nice boobies ((I find it ironic that these boobies have no heads)). [caption id="attachment_273" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="A pair of blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos Islands by Eugene on Flickr"][/caption] It seems the planned Australian Filter has hit mainstream news.  Not that I watch much of that, but it's been ...