In my comment trails during the week, I feel like I’ve unwittingly started a few spotfires and it’s only after re-visiting a key few blogs again that I realise conversation has flared and is burning brightly (but hopefully not out of control). Example one – I left a comment on Chris Craft’s blog about my [...]
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
I haven’t done a comic strip for ages but the recent conversation on the blogs of John Travers and Peter Ruwoldt has inspired me. This is Part One…another four panels to come when ready. Update: Here’s Part 2.
Although at times, it feels like there are very few education bloggers in Adelaide, a face to face opportunity like the education.au Jimmy Wales event reminds me that there are other voices out there in this town, presenting different takes on the state and future of education. I’m not a big podcast listener but I’ve [...]
After the lunch, we were introduced to a panel representing the various sectors by Mark Pesce, the panel moderator. He spoke briefly to set the scene and had some really good things to say. He mentioned that there are issues in the way we learn in relation to the concept of knowledge sharing. Two key [...]
Well, it would have been good to have live blogged this event but my laptop refused to connect to the wireless network here at the Hilton. We had a brief introduction from Chris Robinson, Director-General of DECS, who spoke first and made a couple of statements that I’m not so sure about – I’m not [...]
Every day brings a new Twitter friend and I try to lob at least one twitter into the mix on a daily basis to keep in touch. Some people on my little network are regular, others post in fits and bursts but it’s become mildly handy as a post-it note bulletin board type place to [...]
My esteemed online colleague, Alex Hayes has once again hit the proverbial nail on the head, highlighting the very big deal that online identity is in this brave new networked world. Anonymity used to be reserved for those of us who were just starting out but it now seems to be the province of the [...]
We had an interesting exercise at our final staff meeting for the term where we had an A5 sheet of paper with a six cell table printed on it. In the six cells were writing prompts that were designed for reflection and some forward planning. I actually found it hard to really identify that I [...]
Via Quentin D’Souza, a term that describes exactly how I feel at frequent intervals in my professional life – Imposter Syndrome. Attribution: Image: ‘Imposter‘ by Bingo Little www.flickr.com/photos/14336282@N00/8553122
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