technoChinese - iPods, mobile phones and Year 8

Here is my digital story and written report of the project I did this and last term with Year 8. Some of you may remember me asking for advice on whether to buy iPod Classics, touches or nanos? Well, they were for this project. There were may good things about how everything worked out, but the [...]

What Part of ‘Say No’ Don’t I Understand?

Apparently there are only so many hours in a day. Who’d’ve known?! What do you mean I can’t do EVERYTHING? Are you saying I can’t do all the things I think I want to do, or have been asked to do, and then be surprised when none of them get done to my very high [...]

Emailing from my phone

I finally went and sorted out internet on my phone and so now i’m testing the emailing feature of my blog. If it all works well i’m planning to do a whole series of blog posts from my phone. Posting straight to my blog is one way and posting to a place like utterli.com that [...]

Oh For The Love of The Flip

By far the most used bit of technology I brought to China is my little orange Flip Video. What a work out it has received! Almost every day it has been working hard recording the sights and sounds of the students in China, and every day it has been fabulous. Mostly it has been me [...]

Best Practice - Really?

What is Best Practice? Is there really such a thing? Is best practice for me the same as best practice for you? Is Best Practice just a phrase used to help publishers sell books? One of the unconference sessions I went to at the Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai was a discussion on Best Practice and [...]