How to start a presentation (and how not to)

After thinking about the lecture as a motivational talk the other day, it was great to read some tips for motivating and engaging people in Kathy Sierra’s post “Better beginnings, how to start a presentation, book, article” :

Nobody knows more about the importance of beginnings than novelists and screenwriters, but too often we think their advice . . . → Read More: How to start a presentation (and how not to)

Top reasons for blogging in class

“If I had never heard of blogs before, what would be the top 5 reasons that you would give me to start blogging as an educator?” – I’ve been thinking about this a bit lately while browsing Will’s Why Weblogs and the comments on Nancy’s Why we blog with our classes… and thought I’d put together . . . → Read More: Top reasons for blogging in class

Teaching is dead… long live learning

Had great afternoon on Thursday down at the TAFE NSW Managers Association’s forum “Learning for the Future”.

As usual, I was pretty nervous beforehand about getting up infront of 50 educators and trying to get a discussion happening, but thanks to Joe (one of my mates from class), things went pretty smoothly…

Leigh Blackall, Anne Paterson and I were facilitating a discussion with the title Teaching is Dead… Long live learning” (the slides were just to prompt some discussion). People seemed genuinely excited about some of the ideas and demonstrations.
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