Archive for February, 2006

E-Learning 2.0 - Why bother? - or “A rant on how techknowledge changes everything and always has”

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I kinda think that what I want to say should particularly not be said in this format. It really should be a well researched essay. Now, while I understand that this would lead most people into stopping what they were doing, and were I someone else I would agree with ...

Brainstorm wrap up - Bud-the-teacher joins the edtech brainstormers

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Had a really great chat with a bunch of people last night on the show. Bud the teacher, Todd Vanek, Ant Jackson, Jeff Lebow and Jeff Flynn, Learndog and Pete Pasque all joined us at different times to talk about all kinds of stuff including the private public blog e-portfolio ...

Post a Secret… Education and the ‘Real’

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Strange thoughts strangely fitting for a night spent refreshing a resume. It is a strange process of ever increasing ‘truthiness’ the older you get… No longer do I have ‘worm farmer’ or ‘house painter’ on my resume, I don’t need to stretch the teaching credentials anymore, and that feeling like ...

lalala non existant post 17

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

There was never a 17. it might have been my bio. but now it's my break

Edtechtalk - a brush with two very decent people

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Had a great show today with Will Richardson and Stephen Downes on Edtechtalk. They were very interesting, brought up some great points, and really quite a coup for us to have them on the show today. The thing that struck me the most was how nice they were. This is ...

Education and postmodernism - a toolkit of plenty - or how i learned to stop worrying and love the postmodern

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I once hated postmodernism… at a real, visceral level. I didn’t like the word, I didn’t like the smug looks on the faces of people who used it, I didn’t like the way they used the word ‘text’. “Well, this painting makes a very interesting text blah blah la la ...

Project updates

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

We interrupt your regular scheduled programming to bring you this Dave’s Ed update… Saturday morning of a very solid week. Worldbridges New Media Offer has attracted another pretty interesting project. Student language and culture exchange between Oberlin College in Ohio and an all women’s College in Jedda Saudi Arabia. Have had ...

Cheating, intellectual property, privacy and the read/write classroom

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 (cut off in the great server crash of '06) I’m sitting at an old computer, in a windowless room at the university where I teach ESL students. It reminds me of my old university days in the rat warren, otherwise known as the ‘Life’ Science Centre at ...

Who is powering the publication?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Monday, October 10th, 2005 (cut off in the great server crash of '06) A nice weekend away from the computer, chilled out a bit, and refocused myself for the coming weeks. We’ve got a bunch of stuff we’re doing, including the moodle moot some curriculum development not to mention my classes ...

Patience in Podcasting

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Friday, October 7th, 2005 (cut off in the great server crash of '06) Got brought up short tonight on the show by Jeff Flynn(gently as always, what a great guy)… I was ribbing him about podcasting in his new moodle installation, and about just doing his podcast with a microphone from ...