An Expat Educator in Asia

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 [...]

I had a bit of a rant on a mailing list yesterday when I saw a request from an Australian School Administrator who was asking to visit a 1:1 school to see something in action for the first time. I am amazed that MLC Melbourne embarked on the journey of 1:1 learning over 25 years [...]

I have some workshops to run on Electronic Whitboards coming up next month so I thought it about time to get some slides together that look at some of the latest research.  I particularly like the research of Sandy [...]

This is my last post on this subject but I need to close off by saying that some folk have got back to me and told me about their trials with various wireless projectors and it seems that everyone in this part of the world has used them in Ad-hoc mode only.
One large school in [...]

Another tough day trying to convince Projector sales people that what they say about their projectors on their website and other literature is in fact true.
I don’t know what it is like in other parts of the world. It astounds me how little people in “high tech Hong Kong” know about the technology products that [...]

I have spent a lot of today looking at wireless projectors for a client. Some good learning which is worth posting here.
I have been both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised by what I have found.
On the positive side, I was warned that the screen refresh/data transfer rate meant that the projector might be very poor at [...]

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 [...]

I just wanted to put up a post with some starter ideas for some early years teachers I am working with in terms of introducing them to the EWB at the moment. Here are some ideas.
Firstly, the kids need to be on their toes, ready to be called up at any time. This classtools.net activity [...]

I know that a great many educators in this region are looking at mobile devices including PDAs and even mobile phones as learning devices. I recently read this posting to a list which I felt compelled to copy here so that teachers are at least aware that such work is taking place and is possible.
Many [...]