I’d hoped to flesh out this post further today but I’ve been gobbled up by a series of different events and haven’t had a chance to come back to it.  Rather than sit on the post and lose momentum though, I’d like to throw this out for comment, suggestion, criticism, or insight into other people’s experiences.
Background
One of the ideas that came out of my latest performance review was the need to develop a communication strategy to facilitate engagement with the wider faculty community. Traditionally I’ve had little need for a …

Generally speaking one of the themes that’s become abundantly clear to me in the faculty over the last two and a half months is the relative lack of awareness of the diversity and opportunity that exists in online learning and online engagement. In practice this has meant that that environments that are looked to and adopted in terms of eLearning and educational technology are fairly generic, and so too is the manner in which they are frequently used.
This is no criticism of the staff mind you, merely an observation.
The big …

I’ve been meaning to plug this event for over a week now. Shame on me for being such a slacker…
I want to give a big shout-out on behalf of the upcoming Technology in Learning & Teaching Unconference, being held on September 25th and hosted by Macquarie University and the Islands of jokaydia in Second Life.
Tagged as MQUncon09 for short, the educational technology extravaganza is “a FREE event for educators to connect and share ideas and solutions around using educational technology in learning and teaching.”
I’m planning on facilitating a session on …

Given my role in the TELT project as an eLearning Researcher and Educational Technologist, I should probably preempt this post by saying the opinions and perspectives contained here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of UNSW, or the individuals in the video. Basically this isn’t a formal media release; they’re just my thoughts and experiences.
This video was posted just this evening on the UNSW eLearning Channel at YouTube and I thought it was worth sharing. This is primarily to establish a point of reference regarding …

In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to say that we largely dropped the ball on recording and broadcasting the event. I’m hoping to catch up with Robyn (and anyone else who’s interested) to determine the most effective ways of capturing and …