An Expat Educator in Asia

This is a workshop on how to write online. It is an example of a bloging and wiking workshop.

I feel privileged to be able to go along and listen to someone whom I had only before seen present a talk on the TED forum last Friday evening. Given that it was a packed lecture theater, I feel doubly privileged to have been able to secure a seat close to front but not too [...]

I recently attended the Microsoft TechEd 2008 conference in the HKCEC in Wan Chai where I sat in on a presentation to do with capturing innovation  in an organisation.
It struck me how relevant this presentation could be to education. Whilst part of the agenda of the talk was to convince attendees that MS Sharepoint [...]

I had a day of speaking to a number of really positive people yesterday about the possibility of running a very large international conference focussing on 21st Century Learning here in Hong Kong next October. I am feeling very positive about this now. I am certain that we can get vendors, teachers and kids on [...]

At the recommendation of folks like Wes Fryer and Will Richardson, I have come to know and repect the name Lawrence Lessig as not only the world’s foremost authority on copyright and intellectual property issues, but a committed visionary and powerful speaker on the area of sharing resources. As chair of the Creative Commons project, [...]

There was a flurry of posts on an email list I belong to last week following the ACEC08 conference in Canberra where a lot of participants in sessions were using laptops and other mobile devices to blog, twitter and otherwise connect and collaboarte during speaker sessions. A lot of the discussion centered around the ettique [...]

This is another of those articles which I came across during the week and can’t for the life of me remember who sent it!
It is titled “10 years on, high-school social skills predict better earnings than test scores” and for me, it says a lot about what we need to consider as important as we [...]

Only just now getting around to posting about the Google Docs Seminar that took place last Saturday.
This was an amazing success with over 100 Hong Kong Teachers giving up their Saturday morning to come along and hear how they might use Google with their students!
I am not really sure why it was so successful when [...]

Since attending the Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai last month, I have been asked to consider the possibility of hosting next year’s conference in Hong Kong. Whilst on the one hand, I am very keen to get something like this going in Hong Kong, on the other I know just how difficult it is to [...]

I feel quite honored to be asked to be a part of a group from Hong Kong invited to give input as an overseas Aussie to the Australia 2020 Summit. This was something that the new primeminister, Kevin Rudd put in place a few days after taking office and, something that I see as being [...]