Archive for the ‘teaching’ Category

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 ...

Mobile Workforces - Technology to change the world!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I'm just preparing for the last class of Mobile Workforce Technologies and am trying to reflect on what came out of it this year.  Each time we run this course, it's different.  But I don't think we have fully achieved the aim of building the text book for the course, ...

Collaboration Part 1: Attribution is important

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I've been thinking a lot lately about collaboration in learning and, in particular, collaboration between students of different cultures.  There seems to be a few obstacles, at least in the Australian setting.  Approximately 25% of students  at Griffith are international and I suspect it is much higher in the post-graduate ...

Well, that went okay

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I was told after my guest lecture yesterday, that I had 'lived up to expectations'.  Gee, I'll have to try harder, I really wanted to exceed expectations.  Seems people expect a lot of me. I've actually tried to make a movie/animationy thing of my slides, but I haven't quite got the ...

Guest Lecture in e-learning

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Today, I'm introducing HR&Training students to kewl stuff in e-Learning.  Not sure how I'll go, but I've been instructed to include the newer things that are happening in the area.  I think this will be fun!