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Podcasting
Podcasting and vodcasting for educators In this workshop the participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of planning, creating and managing digital media files so that they can be published either as a podcast or vodcast. The acquired skills will allow the participants to create and publish: Second language teaching and learning examples Recorded lectures(…)
Mark O’Meara #FF
This week’s Friday Follow Twitter Interview is with the incredibly interesting Mark O’Meara. His words of wisdom are coming all the way from Geelong in Victoria, Australia.
Dragon Dictation
I am creating this blog post using Dragon Dictation. This iPhone app allows you to record your voice and it converts your voice to text. You can publish that text to Twitter or Facebook or you can e-mail it to another person. For example I intend to e-mail the text to my blog. I will(…)
Zhēng Tú Granny
Last year Shao Ping and I visited some friends in China. We stayed with the family of Crystal, one of our friends in Shanghai. Crystal’s mum is quite adept at the computer. Her name is Xiang Ying. I will not divulge her age but she shared with me her vivid memories of the changes that(…)
Jabiz Raisdana #FF
This week’s Friday Follow Interview is with Jabiz Raisdana all the way from Jakarta, Indonesia. I have always been intrigued by Jabiz’s thoughts on Twitter and I feel that his blog is so wonderfully titled, Intrepid Teacher.
Query post pages
WordPress is an excellent tool. Simply brilliant. There is a feature in WordPress that allows you to query posts based on criteria that you set. For example, you can label posts with a specific category and with that information create a page that lists or displays simply those specific posts. There are WordPress themes, such(…)
Dana Watts #FF
This week’s Friday Follow Interview is with the incredible Dana Watts teaching in New Delhi, India. She is an education legend and admired by many around the world.
Australians at war
When teaching the history of Australia’s role in significant conflicts such as the Second World War there are a number of web sites that I and my students turn to as part of our programme of exploration and investigation. To begin, Australians at War and Fifty Australians are two sites that I share with my students(…)
Melbourne sojourn
Melbourne is an interesting city. Shao Ping and I just spent 4 days there. Tourists we were and also observers of the human condition. We enjoyed our break in Melbourne and we intend to return to catch the Tutankhamun exhibition in April. We went to the National Gallery of Victoria and checked out the Gustave Moreau(…)
Pasir Ris in Singapore
My wife Shao Ping and I lived in Pasir Ris in north-eastern Singapore for a year or so and sometimes of an evening we would walk down to the beach to catch the cool breeze and watch the world go by. Mangroves dotted the shore and the nearby estuary. It was not unusual to see(…)
Tropical storm in Singapore
I was fond of the storms that criss-crossed Singapore. These great storms would roll in with high winds and driving rain. I would watch them from the windows of our flat in Bukit Batok. I photographed the storms and this is one such occasion. The swirling clouds, intense rain, the smell of the rain and(…)
Cameron Paterson #FF
This week’s Friday Follow Twitter Interview is with the amazing Cameron Paterson. His interesting thoughts and insightful questions come to us all the way from Harvard.
Stormy Illawarra
Some time back the Illawarra coastline of southern NSW was host to an intense low pressure system and the cell whipped up some impressive seas off the coast. I managed to capture a few photographs of the big swells and the waves crashing over the breakwater at Belmore Basin.
Friday Follow Interviews
This week I am starting something new. This is an idea I have had for a while. I wish to take Friday Follow on Twitter that one step further. Each week I shall interview a member of my connected network…
Sunrise over the Pacific
One morning some time back I had the opportunity to photograph a sunrise. I was at North Wollongong Beach. The sun rises over the Pacific Ocean, our eastern horizon. I was pushing the limit with exposures, concerned I would burn the living daylights out of the old Sony digital camera that I was using. Well,(…)
The well-being of students
One in five children and adolescents is affected by mental health problems and disorders. Those aged 18‐24 have the highest prevalence of mental disorders of any age group.[1] That is an alarming statistic. I have suffered from anxiety and depression. I remember suffering anxiety and depression during my years at school. I have suffered depression(…)
Two kids play with water
This photograph takes me back. The family lived near the beach in North Wollongong on Bourke Street. The old house is still there. Seven children, Mum and Dad in a three bedroom home. The house is still there yet high rise and apartment buildings are encroaching. I was filling up the back of the Cyclops(…)
Meteorological majesty
Back in August as I was driving along my street towards my home I noticed that the clouds in the west looked icy as the sun was setting. As soon as I arrived home I grabbed my camera and began photographing the clouds as the sun sank behind the horizon. In winter is not that(…)
Google Reader
RIP Google Reader Google Reader is to be retired on July 1st 2013. A sad day indeed. What is Google Reader? Google Reader allows you to keep track of the various web sites that you have bookmarked or subscribed to in the past. In this manner you can easily keep track of any new items, stories(…)
What is Twitter? Twitter is an interesting beast. You need to give it a go and sort of figure it out as you go along. Find out what works best for you. My usage waxes and wanes lately. I need a new driver to make me tap into its value once again. Many individuals simply(…)
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