An Expat Educator in Asia

Anne Mirtschin is someone that I haven’t  met but I have enjoyed her postings on the oz Teacher list here is a great list of blogs that she forwarded today:
Chris Betcher has spoken well in support of blogging and the need for those blogs to be online or else there is no purpose. My students have [...]

Just read an excellent post by Andy Carvin over at PBS Teachers about research into online predators.  As you might expect, the findings of the research indicate that the real risk to children is minimal and the media frenzy that would have us believe that every child who goes online is being stalked by weirdos [...]

I have just read a conversation on the Oz Teachers List regarding the issues of connecting up a new laptop to the IWB/Projector combination in a classroom. As many readers of this list may experience the same issues at some point in the future, I have copied it below for you:
Will do, but won’t be [...]

I recently read Chris Betcher’s blog about his moodle course Becoming a Moodle Dude that he is taking to become familiar with his extensive Moodle installation in his new school. I have been a big fan of the use of this system even before having lunch with and a good chat to Martin Dougiamas, moodle’s creator [...]

Wow! what a tough ride Lantau is. Glad I went but can’t say I did too well on the tough hills on the climbs over the pass and up to the Big Buddah. They are hard work at the best of times. The narrow roads and buses trying to get past don’t make it any [...]

I am always learning from the local school teachers in Hong Kong schools. Someone shared today a URL that shows newscasts aimed at the student level and asks questions based on the newscast. It is here

I have been meeting with and receiving workshop proposals from more and more teachers lately as a result of my organising this conference. What this has lead me to see is the stark difference between how schools view the use of 21st Century tools for learning. Some schools are right behind the use of Web2.0 tools [...]

One of the things about Hong Kong is its humidity.
We have been very lucky and had some good crisp weather for some time but now the humidity is starting to return.
The air is quite moist today. Maybe a sign of things to come as we start to move out of winter.

One of the technology integration teachers at a Hong Kong school contacted me today to ask about what schools use to filter internet content. I suggested that he use my mailing list to try to get some responses from the bigger schools and that I could do some leg work for the other international schools [...]

Have just been catching up on some podcasts and heard one posted some time ago by Wes Fryer which was a conference recording of a workshop at NCCE 2008 Podcast230: Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All by Karen Fasimpaur This was very, very useful for schools who are just getting into [...]