An Expat Educator in Asia

This is another of those articles which I came across during the week and can’t for the life of me remember who sent it!
It is titled “10 years on, high-school social skills predict better earnings than test scores” and for me, it says a lot about what we need to consider as important as we [...]

Only just now getting around to posting about the Google Docs Seminar that took place last Saturday.
This was an amazing success with over 100 Hong Kong Teachers giving up their Saturday morning to come along and hear how they might use Google with their students!
I am not really sure why it was so successful when [...]

Since attending the Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai last month, I have been asked to consider the possibility of hosting next year’s conference in Hong Kong. Whilst on the one hand, I am very keen to get something like this going in Hong Kong, on the other I know just how difficult it is to [...]

I feel quite honored to be asked to be a part of a group from Hong Kong invited to give input as an overseas Aussie to the Australia 2020 Summit. This was something that the new primeminister, Kevin Rudd put in place a few days after taking office and, something that I see as being [...]

It must have been back in around 1998 when I first met Gary Stager. That was in a small seminar room at the Fremantle yacht club. I have to say that he was not an instant hit with me due to his style of speaking but his message was on the money. Since then, Gary [...]

Thanks to Jennifer Carrier Dorman on Cliotech, I was informed about the Free offering of Animoto for educators. This is a welcome extension to what is a fantastic Web2.0 tool for learning.
What I really loved about Jennifer’s post, however, was that she went on to mention how you can set up groups of students [...]

Thanks to a post on a list by Stephen Loosley, I went to the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day site. I couldn’t help but think what a great inspiration to the curiosity of students looking at one of these pics on the EWB in the classroom each day might be.
If you have never been [...]

This week I posted a reflection on the exit skills students should have when leaving a learning institution in the 21st Century. I think that this is great place for schools to begin discussion about the use of texts, curricula, educational technology, chalk, indeed anything for learning. My post made reference to the great initial [...]

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 [...]

After my posting about the low-lifes who form anonymous online groups for the sole purpose of provoking strangers online and scoring “lulz” this week, I thought that I should balance the posts with an article about the potential power of the web to promote peace in our often troubled world. The thing I really like [...]