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So, it's the end of O-Week and a four day residential school for Graduate Diploma of Learning and Teaching Students - a post-graduate, pre-service, teaching qualification. About 100 students got a lot thrown at us for four days, now it's time to get into some work. The following is an attempt to get some idea of and reflect upon the work I need to do with the "e-learning" course. Others will probably follow....more...
So, post #3 for week 1 of the ICTs for Learning Design, this time on connectivism. There are two parts to the question, the second is somewhat easier and asks fo examples of how connectivism could be used in a classroom/learning context. The first is somewhat more difficult....more...
Okay, so blog post #2 arising from week 1 of an ICTs for Learning Design course I'm doing. This post is intended to address the question of 21st century learners. In part this connects back to a sentence from the start of this weeks study guide with which I had problems. That sentence was...more...
The following post if for the course EDED20491 and is in response to the following activity...more...
This week brings the first formal tasks of my new phase as a teacher in training. We, the students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching, are required to attend four days of a residential school. These four days coincide with Orientiation Week and we'll be attending bits of standard O-Week, but mostly focusing on the res school....more...
In the following I ruminate on a possible correlation between academic participation in a course and response rates on end of term student evaluation. There are two points:...more...
Time to continue the implementation of support services for manage marking started in the last post. Services left to be implemented are...more...
As per the last post time to complete some support services for manage marking....more...
The next step in bim2 development is implementation of the manage marking tab....more...
This time next year I should probably be teaching high school IT and maths. Because of this I've been thinking a lot about what type of teacher/educator/facilitator I'd like to be. What will be my ethos? I'm sure I'll be asked that in coming weeks as I study....more...
Apparently, it is too complex to create a personalised class timetable for students at the institution I'm attending. I have previously described what I (as a student) have to currently do to create my class timetable as well as explaining that I helped implement a personalised class timetable system at the same institution about 10 years ago....more...
In the next couple of weeks I re-commence my face-to-face university education. This time in a Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in order to become a high school teacher. As it's less than two weeks from the start of term, the materials for the courses are now becoming ready. The following is an ad hoc collection of thoughts and experiences as I try to get an overview of the material and the term ahead....more...
The last work on bim2 ended up with the first 2 of 5 tabs for the coordinator interface completed. This post continues on with that development....more...
Today a mate posted to his blog about a small project he's involved with. The context of this project seems to be a good opportunity to comment on the potential flexibility of open source LMS and the limits of that flexibility within an institutional context. It's also an attempt to link it back to the design theory described in my thesis (if you want more of the theory behind the following, look at the thesis)....more...
The last bit of work on bim2 set up the structure for the coordinator interface and operations. This post documents the work of implementing the models, i.e. starting the process by which the coordinator interface actually starts actually working. Most of this should be a reasonably straight translation/update of bim into the OO structure of bim2....more...
Spent yesterday playing cricket in the local competition. A first step in returning to a "normal" life. As it happens one of the guys I was playing with - and have known for a long time - is also a Deputy Principal at one of the local primary schools. He asked if I was still working at the Uni and I explained no, I was heading into high school teaching. From there the discussion turned to teaching and its issues and benefits. Before too long I asked about NAPLAN testing and its impact. "It's all we're teaching at the moment", was the response, essentially much the same as I I mentioned in a previous post....more...
This tells the story of the conversion of the bim coordinator code into the new OO design being used for bim2....more...
The purpose of this post is to make concrete the status and future plans around bim2. The update of bim for Moodle 2.0....more...
The following continues the coding of the bim2 process for registering and processing a new student feed. It's taken a couple of weeks, but it is working with only a few minor tweaks and nudges remaining....more...
This particular post tells some personal stories about teaching awards within Australian higher education. It's inspired by a tweet or two from @jonpowles...more...
For almost 10 years now I have been hearing within higher education things like...more...