October: Babes in Thailand

Picture this: dining in the Old Siam, traditional Thai restaurant, by the edge of the Andaman Sea, a candlelight alfresco experience. One of my memories from our recent trip to Thailand where we relaxed in Phuket and shopped in Bangkok.
Or maybe consider swimming, snorkelling or sailing in and around the island of Phi Phi – [...]

September: ‘don’t talk about the drought’!

This was the call to action that rippled throughout the north east corridor of Victoria soon after the devastating fires of Black Saturday. Communities have been recording their stories of life on the land during droughts and have been turning them into 3 minute videos. People from all walks of life have answered the call [...]

August E-learning Actions

This has been the month for a variety of actions that I’ve taken  to make a difference in the innovative practices of other teachers. Most of them revolve around E-learning in one shape or another and all of them have enabled me to take another step forward in my own professional development. These have all [...]

Community Centre capers

A great deal of my mentoring has been focussed on the teachers, coordinators and managers of small community centres in the Hume region during June and July.
Stepping into an elearning journey:
A small group of travellers have planned their itineraries for exploring the elearning most useful to them and they are now embarking on a journey [...]

NECC09 : perspectives from #notatnecc09

ISTE’s National Educational Computing Conference 2009 – oh how I wish I had attended. Maybe next year!
An astonishing set of statistics about this prestigious conference held in Washington DC, June 28 to July 1. Can you believe that 18,000 delegates from more than 61 countries around the world descended on the Washington Convention Centre and [...]

Ementors Induction Day

Wow what a buzz!
A group of ementors in the ACFE ementors program met in Melbourne on Friday June 19th and shared their progress and challenges with the group. Here’s some feedback from others who attended.
Jottings from Josie:
Our report back session was interesting and informative – it is great to see such creativity and diversity in [...]

Toastmasters in the Web!

Determined not to miss an entry for the month of May, my birthday month, I wanted to tell you about recent experiences in using Web 2.0 tools for Toastmasters.
During 2008/2009 I have been the president for the Albury Wodonga Toastmasters club who meet regularly at the Wodonga TAFE boardroom. I joined Toastmasters in 2002 during [...]

Did I miss April?

Life went by in a flurry of applications, meetings, project startups, new contacts and online events during April and I did not give my blog a thought.
I have just finished reading ‘Still Alice’ about a woman with early onset Alzheimer’s, maybe I caught that from the book? My groups are gathering now for the coaching [...]

March Matters

Memorable Moments in Education this Month:
Once again connecting with participants in the Online Facilitation course at GippsTAFE and enjoying my role as co-facilitator with Frankie Forsythe. A three week intensive course which demonstrates the useage of Blackboard LMS, discussion forums, teleconferencing, journals online, wikispaces for shared resources, text and voice chat, voice boards and voice [...]

Exploring ‘performance art’ tools

This morning I attended an inspiring impromptu discussion about the power of performance art and how it could be put to good use in live conferences.
Imagine a ‘Rolf Harris’ approach to sketching your ideas and wisdom as you perform at the podium – how would you feel about that and more importantly how would an [...]