An Expat Educator in Asia

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 [...]

Yesterday I couldn’t help but connect Scott Adams‘ comic strip with some articles about the use of laptops in conference sessions that I had blogged about recently.
It took me by suprise to read this blog post from Wes Fryer in Oaklahoma and realize that we are both reading the same comic on the same day.
I [...]

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

I am currently enjoying listening to a forum on 21st Century Learning being hosted by the very able Richard Aedy in Melbourne. It features the following:
Professor Barry McGaw
Head of the National Curriculum Board and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
Valerie Hannon
Director of Strategy for the UK Innovation Unit
Chris Wardlaw
Former Deputy Secretary of Education in [...]

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 [...]

At the recommendation of folks like Wes Fryer and Will Richardson, I have come to know and repect the name Lawrence Lessig as not only the world’s foremost authority on copyright and intellectual property issues, but a committed visionary and powerful speaker on the area of sharing resources. As chair of the Creative Commons project, [...]

There was a flurry of posts on an email list I belong to last week following the ACEC08 conference in Canberra where a lot of participants in sessions were using laptops and other mobile devices to blog, twitter and otherwise connect and collaboarte during speaker sessions. A lot of the discussion centered around the ettique [...]