A techie’s view

Acknowledgments My thanks go to the organisers of the Third Reform Symposium conference, held in the last three days of July. My thanks also go to the participants of my first session, “The Textbook, the Classroom and the Internet”. Without their hard work I would have been at a loss for words both then and [...]

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Acknowledgments I am indebted to Glenn Le Santo (web page: http://www.lesanto.com, twitter @lesanto) for the tweet that inspired this post. I speak of audio blogging. Why Am I Doing This? This post is partly a response to Glenn’s tweet: I wished to share a little bit of myself in the same spirit in which he [...]

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Acknowledgments I am indebted to Clive Elsmore (blog: http://cliveinsrilanka.blogspot.com, twitter: @CliveSir) for suggesting that the topic of this post might be of interest to other Reform Symposium presenters. It is to do with creating video files that are suitable for using in virtual presentations of any sort, though the focus of this post will be [...]

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Background I recently had the pleasure of co-moderating with Jo Hart (blog: http://johart1.edublogs.org, twitter: @JoHart) and Clive Elsmore (blog: http://cliveinsrilanka.blogspot.com, twitter: @CliveSir) three training sessions for people who were about to present at a forthcoming Reform Symposium virtual conference. The team work was wonderful, and the attendees were terrific. In terms of helping the presenters [...]

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The Death of Cursive Writing? The Indiana Department of Education has, in common with 39 other states, decided that the teaching of cursive writing should no longer be compulsory. This seems to have caused a certain amount of consternation among educators. This can be perhaps best summed up in the by now hackneyed question “How [...]

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