What is my role as a ‘teacher’?

As a new facilitator in Australian public education, I often feel a little lost for long-term direction – the educational landscape here seems to be changing faster than I can keep up – and often I can only look to the US system to see where I’m headed (for better or worse).

Doug of Borderland posted “Deschooling . . . → Read More: What is my role as a ‘teacher’?

Choosing an MP3 Player

Consumer choice is a great thing – don’t get me wrong – but after spending about 5 hours comparing MP3 players, I’m wondering if I (hehemm, and my wife and kids) would be happier with something that didn’t particularly fit all my needs wants. Can anyone help me out?!

Specifically, I’m after:

a Flash-based device,
512Mb – 1Gb (don’t . . . → Read More: Choosing an MP3 Player

Free sofware in schools

Saving money in schools with free software: Open Source savings in schools . . . → Read More: Free sofware in schools

Crushing the passion

Sad to see another young educator leaving school teaching. Crushing . . . → Read More: Crushing the passion

liveandletlearn – A design document

Why bother with paper? I spent last holidays putting together a design document for this site, liveandletlearn.net, using OpenOffice. But after chatting with a few students last semester, I think it’d be much more useful (for me and perhaps others) as a web-page rather than a wordprocessor document. Of course, this won’t always be possible for . . . → Read More: liveandletlearn – A design document