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Success

I had a great Friday. It was scary, but I enjoyed a massive success. I met great people, I did good things, I conquered fears, I learned from mistakes. Most of the things I planned worked awesomely. I learned from doing. Hearing (or reading) about Friday would not as good as doing it. Friday was […]

Music Technology Course – awesome turn out

I’m spending the day with 20 awesome music teachers from through the north island. This is fun.

New eLearning site needs a test drive

Can you help? I’m building an eLearning site. I need to test how many users it can handle at one and whether all the features work. Do you think you could: Click on the link, register, do the Moodle for Teachers course, upload a profile pic, post something in a forum, suggest a course..? Just […]

Rethinking Education – rethinking me

I read this last night, which caused me to watch Ken Robinson again. If teaching is a creative profession how do we develop the creativity of our future teachers? How do we attract creative people to enter teaching? When and where, if ever, do teachers come to recognize themselves as creative professionals? How do we develop creativity in […]

Music Technology Professional Development

Here’s a little personal project that I’m working on. You might know someone who would be interested in this. In case you missed it, the Music Technology PD Day is on in Auckland on the first Friday of next term. We’ve got teachers coming from as far afield as Tauranga and Long Bay, and a couple of […]

Randi Zuckerberg’s Social Media Breakfast – my thoughts

I was really privileged to attend a Social Media Breakfast featuring Facebook’s head of marketing, Randi Zuckerberg (Mark’s sister) this morning. Here is a brief summary and some of my thoughts. Randi’s best lines On the dating scene in Silicon Valley: The odds are good, but the goods are odd. On her (famous) brother: I graduated from […]

Some thoughts about building your own website – in New Zealand

Well, maybe not so much a series of thoughts as some really simple definitions. I’ll start with a nice jargony sentence. If you want a website, first you need to choose a domain name, get a webhost, build it using a CMS, draw some traffic to it, then update it. You should have a way […]

Disruption: My Theory Of Everything

Disruption: My Theory Of Everything

Recently, I was thinking about all the books that my wife reads about raising children. *There are lots of books because there are lots of children. Five, in fact. Anyway, I thought to myself: “how can they all give different advice, but the advice still actually works?” They tell you to be more structured loosen up distance yourself emotionally […]

The 4-year-old Movie Director

Orson, who is 4, has a little history with iPads. This is his latest creation. His older siblings modelled the software for him, and he snuck the shoot in before dinner the other night. While it’s hardly got a theme of redemption, and the acting is a little 2 dimensional, I think it’s nice. He […]

There are Two Ways

There are two ways of doing IT: the fiddly way and the best way. Use the best tools for the job or bend and stretch the alternatives. How can you tell the best way? That’s actually a really hard question, but it’s partly answered in the reason for this approach. The great thing about doing […]