Reflections on working as an Digital Learning Consultant in the Asian Region.
By Paul McMahon on Mar 10, 2009 in Learning for a Flat World | 1 Comment
In a previous post, I mentioned about the fact that US based Virtual High School has been working with the IBO since 2004 to perfect a model for online teaching of IB Diploma courses. The first trial was highly successful and concluded in May 2006. Since that time, VHS has run limited offerings of the [...]
By Paul McMahon on Mar 8, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons | 0 Comments
Lovely Charts | Free online diagramming application
Diagrams are made to communicate. Every single symbol available in Lovely Charts has been crafted with love, to enable you to create great looking diagrams that will impress, convince and seduce – even if you don’t have the slightest design skill.
Just take a look at our gallery to see [...]
By Paul McMahon on Mar 7, 2009 in Educational Conferences | 5 Comments
Next Wednesday I have a 10 minute spot on a Hong Kong International School Administrators meeting to pitch to them as to why they should attend our 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong conference this October. I now have the challenge of thinking how I am going to convince them to attend in only 10 minutes.
Regular readers of this blog [...]
By Paul McMahon on Mar 2, 2009 in Educational Conferences | 3 Comments
Readers will know that I am very, very keen to have a student strand to the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong conference this October. I really feel that this will add a strong air of authenticity to what we are going to be discussing at the conference. I have blogged previously about how authentic [...]
By Paul McMahon on Mar 2, 2009 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
Maybe it is just me but I increasingly encounter some schools in the Asian region that are doing everything that they can to shut out communities. I have blogged recently about the conference I am trying to setup. I tried to get onto one particular forum that I know connects educators across Hong Kong schools [...]
By Paul McMahon on Mar 1, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons | 0 Comments
Collaborative Learning Home – Collaborative Learning
Welcome to the Collaborative Learning wiki. This space was created for the Learning@School conference 2009.
We hope to investigate what Collaborative learning is within the context of Web 2.0 and provide you with an overview or starting point for where to start.
Here is an attempt to define what Collaborative learning is [...]
