Year of Reading: Mongarlowe
I am fortunate to live in the village of Mongarlowe in New South Wales. There is a notice board at the entrance to Clyde Street in the village that shares news of events. Last week the board was alerting everyone to Clean Up Australia Day on 4 March. To my great delight there was an [...]
Developing an E-Portfolio
I missed out on the the EpCop MOOC last year. I did sign up for it but failed to make any of the synchronous presentations or conversations. However since then I have returned regularly to look at the great resources available. The EpCop site will be a perfect reference site for participants in the Sport [...]
Open for Learning
I have been thinking about open learning for some time. The open online course CCK08 accelerated and focused my interest. Since that course Stephen Downes’ OLDaily has nourished my thinking. (See for example his link to Jenny Mackness’s post today, The place of ‘the teacher’ in relation to open content.) News of Sebastian Thrun’s development [...]
QR Codes: January 2012 Update
I received an alert to David Hopkins’ QR Code post this week. As well as sharing a QR Code infographic, David provided news of a workshop to be held on 31 January hosted by Bournemouth University and the Higher Education Academy Using QR Codes in Higher Education. David points out that: The idea for a [...]
The Magic of Books
I received a great link from Kent Anderson at The Scholarly Kitchen this morning. Kent writes about a stop motion film made in the Type Books Toronto bookshop. The Joy of Books was made by Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp. The film was posted on YouTube on 9 January 2012. By the time I [...]
