It is a mixture of personal anecdotes, observations, skites about my son, Thomas and sometimes some things vaguely intelligent. For much more intelligent comments on education, social software and the like check out the blogs of my colleagues at www.core-ed.net
Have been spending this week at the Christchurch Convention Centre as part of CORE Education’s Ulearn08 conference. 1,800 educators from around New Zealand, Australia and around the world have gathered here to hear some amazing keynote speakers and to share their experiences of technology and education.
For CORE staff, even thought it is an extremely [...]
The Tuesday morning session was started by a rousing presentation by Ngahihi o te ra Bidois from Rotorua. Given this international conference is being held in New Zealand it was great to have someone who so obviously embraced his NZ and Maori heritage.
Ngahihi o te ra talked of ways to increase your leadership influence and [...]
The first keynote speaker at the conference was “Game-keeper turned poacher” Hon Steve Maharey, until recently Minister for Education and about to become Vice-Chancellor of Massey University (where I did my PostGrad study).
Like everything, the tertiary education environment throughout the world is changing and governments are asking to see tangible evidence of a return on [...]
Have been spending the week at the Tertiary Education Management Conference based at the Christchurch Convention Centre. It has been organised by the Aotearoa Branch of ATEM (for which I am the Branch President) and TEFMA, the Facilities Management Association. It has been an enjoyable conference and good to see everything coming together after 2 [...]
