Volunteering to work

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Huh? This can’t be right?:
http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/accept-the-fact-that-we-have-to-treat-almost-anybody-as-a-volunteer-implications-for-learning-and-teaching/
David Jones has quoted Peter Ducker:
                                        Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Presumably, in order to accept this fact, we need to understand what the heck Ducker is talking about. And who accounts for the “almost”? Who’s the unpaid slave? The longer I luxuriate in [...]

ASCILITE 2008

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

It’s nice to be back in Melbourne for the ASCILITE Conference. It was so much more meaningful for me this year, as I have had nearly three months of ICT on-the-job training since Singapore, 2007. So much of the talk is relevant to our research project into personal learning environments and Web 2.0 enabled social [...]

I don’t want to talk about it.

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

What are we actually doing?!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

PLEs @CQU project            Reflections of the past six weeks…
Using the Ps Framework (Jones, 2008), I will reflect on my view (limited though it is) of the research project into personal learning environments.
Here are my perspectives of the project so far:
I have been working in pedagogy at universities for a little while now, as [...]

Out of/for control?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I happened to be talking to a bloke about Blackboard (as you do around here when you sit out in the Queensland sun at lunchtime with your hot and raw MSG stir-fry). He was a fan of the system. Apparently it only costs the university $55k per annum to run it as the CMS. Now [...]