An Expat Educator in Asia

I always find it a great pleasure to be in a foreign country and run into friends from home. This applies to the situation at BETT where I was really keen to run into Paul White of the ESF, who I knew to be attending BETT prior to my leaving. I saw Paul most days [...]

When I arrived in Hong Kong a little over 4 years ago there was not a single 1:1 takehome laptop programme in existence in the city. By the end of this year, there will be a programme in every ESF secondary and a number of other International schools in town (around 10 in all). Given [...]

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

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 read an interesting post recently about the Open Source Operating System on the XO notebook that Negoroponte wants to put in the hands of the world’s disadvantaged children via the one laptop per child project. This software is called sugar and is apparently now finding favour with more than just the XO laptops. The [...]

It is funny how you start thinking things and something about them magically appears!
I was discussing Portable Technology User Policies with Dr Peter Leesinsky, Principal of Korean International School yesterday. In a far ranging conversation we spoke about the need to have staff and students on the same page with regard to the use of [...]

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 [...]

 You know, it is no cliche when I say that I do as much learning in my workshops as the participants do themselves. Proabably the best example of this is the discussions we have about how these teachers in traditional Hong Kong schools make use of digital technologies in their lessons today. I have to [...]

ASUS EeePCs

Originally uploaded by Craig Rodway

This is a pic of the ASUS Eee PC as referred to in the previous entry below.
It is just the sort of thing I was asking for 8 years ago when we started the 1:1 program in Perth. It is a great [...]

When I was setting up the laptop programme at my former school in Australia, there was a lot of discussion with many stakeholders about how much access we would give kids to their own laptops. I was really glad that we had a very good System Administrator at that stage who was really keen on [...]