I hate August

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

August in Brisbane is perhaps the most annoying time of the year.  It is dry, cold and I tend to get lots of static.  Everytime I touch things, I get a shock.  I've even managed to short out the touch pad on my laptop which isn't as bad as it ...

To structure or not

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

This wiki course always gets me thinking.  We have such a diversity of students that some thrown themselves almost bodily into working on the wiki, while others seem to be much slower to take up the challenge.  This makes it a challenge for us to shape tutorials in a manner ...

Flexible learning with wikis

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have to say, it seems we have some very keen students this semester.  We got their wiki logins set up by about 3:30, notified them by 3:45 and the first one had logged in by 3:55.  Nearly 10 % of them have already logged in and it's only 2 ...

Wiki Pedagogy in colour

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

So hot on the heals of the whole EduPunk rethunking, and to elaborate for our wiki paper, Luke suggested a diagram of what wiki pedagogy was in our course. So I've put together a first draft trying to demonstrate how things interconnect in our wiki teaching. There are ...

And breathe

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Well, that was interesting. Two weeks left of semester.  All my plans of learning new things with the Designing for Flexible Learning Practice Course and Learning Ruby on Rails have come to naught under the weight of the Wiki Assignment and The Dreaded Excel Assignment.  I'm not sure where all my ...