Empathy : can you feel it?

Disclaimer
This post may be a bit out of place but I it’s the best place to put the information at the minute. Primary purpose of this blog is to service my current organisation and it’s community in the areas of elearning and technology so maybe it’s not that “out there.” Anyway, I push on.
Intro
The overarching [...]

What, who ar why?

Why do you teach? Is it the subject or the students?
He mentioned that there must be teachers out there who joined the profession because they have a love or admiration of the subject matter and that the students are secondary to that motivating force. That statement intrigued me. Would there be teachers who enjoy the [...]

Terminology and acronyms

I have decided I don’t like the term LMS (Learning Management System.)It just implies that its all controlled and stuff.I feel that online learning spaces as they are currently viewed by most (i.e LMS or CMS system) is fundamentally flawed (for high school students at least.) The names themselves “Learning Management System” implies a level [...]

Backup strategies

Every man and his blog (See what I did? Get it?) has written something about backing up but I have been sparked into action. A colleague related her story to me the other day. She has 3 young children (twins plus one I think.) Anyway, they had been accumulating digital media of the family over [...]

It’s the little things…

A lot of small things can add up to big gains in productivity.Copy message URL in Mail.app is huge for me. I just found it. So if I get emails about events that are already in my calendar (I use iCal and sync to GCal) I can easily add them to the event then archive [...]