What the F#$%$#’s going on?
So why the blog updates all of a sudden? It appears that sending emails about things is upsetting a small group of colleagues. Bugger it. I still want to post, record and comment to...
Category: Education
Education.au Conference
Mark Pesce Unintended consequences of technology: attacking hierarchies which used to control information. Mobile phones are intrinsically networked devices with all of those consequences RateMyProfessor as a corrosive of academic values: competition for ‘popular’...
Generation Next
I’m sitting in the Clancy Auditorium, attending the Generation Next. It was not quite my idea if how to spend a Saturday night, but we felt it important to come and listen. The auditorium...
Using new Literacies to improve learning
This was my column in the College newsletter this week. I thought it was pretty good, so I’m claiming it for the blog. I found a wonderful quote from Marx on the weekend (Groucho...
The Holiday Reading List
Ah, the joys of blogging on the iPhone. Here’s hoping that my belief in wifi in Europe is well-founded, otherwise this blog might be very abbreviated. Anyway, here is the reading list that is...
It is christmas!
As you can see, I am at marking and the management have obliged with a tree. Is it the first of Christmas? Anyway, I wrote this on my iPhone. Not bad. Need a wide...
CiteULike discovery and back to posting
It’s been an unbelievably long break between real posts (delicious doesn’t count), but the anticipated end of the university year and the easing down of work before Christmas offers some possibilities of real writing....
Reviewing Mark Treadwell’s Seminars
Mark’s website contains a huge amount of information, and it is hard to accurately describe his content because he covered so much ground. For me, it was a ground-breaking experience. The whole business is...