An Expat Educator in Asia

Whilst at the Flat Classroom conference today, Anne Baird showed me Super Clubs Plus and informed me that the Victorian Education Department has purchased a license for every school in the state to have access to this. I was amazed that such a quality, monitored resource like this existed and that it is from the [...]

Time to pack the bags and leave them at the hotel for collection on the way to the airport tonight.

I am very much looking forward to the final day of this memorable event. This really has me reflecting on the involvement of students in a conference. The kids have focussed educators in a way that [...]

It often works that the things that you least expect to be of great value turn out to be really significant. I admit to not having Julie Lindsay and Vicky Davis’s Flat Classroom Conference high on my priority list. Not sure why this is but I think it might have something to do with the [...]

I am really grateful that the work I do sometimes involves travel. I am currently in Doha for the Flatclassroom Conference at Qatar Academy. The conference has a virtual element and you can get all of the details of it here.
This is following on from the work that I have done at Bahrain in the [...]

I always feel a bit daunted an overwhelmed by an event the size of BETT. I guess it reflects a bit on my lack of a systematic approach to the event. I wear a lot of hats in the role that I currently occupy. On the one hand, I was attending BETT to hear about [...]

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 [...]

Here are some summary notes from some BETT Seminars:
Next Generation Learning Charter – what does it mean for my school?
Learners of all ages need the chance to use technology to support their learning” said Jim Knight MP, Department for Children, Schools and Families, as he launched the revised Harnessing Technology Strategy.
Part of this strategy includes [...]

BETT has a bit of an identity crisis. Is it a trade show for sellers and buyers to meet up and exchange money for goods or is it a gathering of people who want to further 21st Century Learning for students and see that electronic technology is a great way to meet that aim? I [...]

One of the things about the conference planning that it going to cost me sleep is the fact that I want to get a clear message out to groups that I know are at different stages in their journeys.
Some conferees, like librarians and media specialists are at the leading edge of the use of 21st [...]

The collective group of interested educators planning the 21st Century Learning @ HK conference next October need to decide on a theme that captures all that we wish to convey as soon as they can. It is a truism about conferences like this that once the idea is “born”, as it were, we all suddenly [...]