An Expat Educator in Asia

I still feel very privilidged to have sat a few metres from the great Larry Lessig a few weeks ago as he spoke
about the absurdity of the current copyright laws. I also recently came across a post by John Pearce about a session that he had attended at ACEC08 giving the Australian perspective on [...]

I have written and presented at workshops about the importance of being aware of your online profile and how easy it can be for people to find out EVERYTHING about you via Google search. In many cases this can be a great thing. Like when a long-lost friend or relative makes contact or someone acknowledges [...]

Yesterday I couldn’t help but connect Scott Adams‘ comic strip with some articles about the use of laptops in conference sessions that I had blogged about recently.
It took me by suprise to read this blog post from Wes Fryer in Oaklahoma and realize that we are both reading the same comic on the same day.
I [...]

Hong Kong , and probably the greater Asian region, seems to be in the grip of laptop programs at the

I am currently enjoying listening to a forum on 21st Century Learning being hosted by the very able Richard Aedy in Melbourne. It features the following:
Professor Barry McGaw
Head of the National Curriculum Board and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
Valerie Hannon
Director of Strategy for the UK Innovation Unit
Chris Wardlaw
Former Deputy Secretary of Education in [...]

Last night I had a good chat via Skype with Jeff Utecht in Bangkok, David Carpenter in Taiwan and John Mikton from Prague about trying to get Administrators of schools to see the need to see the use of ICT for learning across the curriculum as something to be embraced as an important part of [...]

I think I once read somewhere that ideas can have their time and so when one person starts writing about something, it often happens that another can be writing about the same thing at the same time without connecting in any way. This must be the case as I drafted this post around 10 days [...]

Recently I had the good fortune to share a coffee with Gary Walder of Newell PR in Hong Kong. Gary is a former teacher and now a PR consultant for Newell. Among his many clients, Gary manages the Promethean account in Hong Kong and I can tell from his passion for wanting to see more [...]

I had been reading recently about how the next wave of technology for the gadget lover is a projector built into your mobile phone. According to the Hong Kong 3M reps Anthony and Jason who came for a coffee today, this will not be mainstream in the market till 2010 but 3M are first to [...]

Last Friday I spent the day with the fantastic staff at Chun Tok School in Hammer Hill Kowloon. This is a special needs school for hearing impaired kids. I think that these kids are getting every opportunity to learn from the staff who are a really caring, dedicated lot. This was true right from the [...]