Talking with EdTalk @ Ulearn10

This year I was very lucky to attend Ulearn 2010.  I had attended last year as well, and also back in 2004 when it was still connected with the NAVCON consortium.  Once again it was a great conference and once again I got to take three colleagues from Manor Lakes College – the school where [...]

Continue Reading 2 comments November 6, 2010

Cover Story of Education Technology Solutions

Late July, I was asked to write an article for a magazine – Education Technology Solutions. This came about from a presentation that I had delivered at the ACEC2010 Conference here in Melbourne. My presentation was entitled – Preparing for a 1:1 Learning Environment and so was my article. I have written for a magazine [...]

Continue Reading 4 comments October 31, 2010

ACEC2010 School Tour

As an organiser of and presenter at ACEC2010 I think my most nervous time was the visit of 25 delegates from around the world to my college, Manor Lakes P-12/Specialist College.  We had visitors from all around Australia as well as Singapore, Hungary and New Zealand. We were very fortunate to be involved in a [...]

Continue Reading 1 comment April 21, 2010

Lights … Camera … Xirrus!

A couple of months ago amid a very busy week at work, I was asked by our Xirrus contact, Peter Davison if I would be happy to be interviewed by their company representative, John Merrill from the Press dept.  I wasn’t quite sure what this would entail, but was happy to give some comments regarding our [...]

Continue Reading Add comment April 10, 2010

1:1 – A pedagogical view

This year the VITTA conference was back at the Flemington Racecourse.  A beautiful venue which for me is synonymous with VITTA, so it was nice to be back.  I presented on the Tuesday on 1:1 Learning Environments – A pedagogical view.  It was a quite a good size crowd and lots of familiar faces in [...]

Continue Reading 1 comment November 30, 2009

1:1 Learning Environments

Last night I started a new Ning for 1:1 Learning Environments – http://1to1learningenvironments.ning.com/ There are many schools now considering going down the 1:1 laptop path, whether they are part of the netbook trial here in Victoria or doing it on their own, just as my college is. When we first considered the 1:1 laptop initiative [...]

Continue Reading 1 comment September 25, 2009


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