An Expat Educator in Asia

Last Friday I attended a seminar at Hong Kong University’s Centre for Information Technology in Education. There was hardly anything of revelation in the seminar which was about: How Research into ICT can support development in Policy and practice: reflections on Pedagogy and Learning with ICT: researching the art of innovation

The researcher was Prof. [...]

I will never forget my arrival in Hong Kong, having come from a very collaborative educational community and arriving in a school in 2005 where I was the only teacher to know what a blog was. At my very first meeting about directions of IT in the school I asked about the IT specialist community [...]

There is no doubt that teachers coming to terms with changes in International Schools do a lot of learning. These teachers are often taking on planning of new curriculum like the International Baccalaureate that International Schools are rushing to adopt or coming to terms with the changes brought about through the introduction of new technology [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]