Teaching

How do you perceive New Technologies?

It’s interesting when technologies change.

In the context of work, I support lots of instructors who become used to using specific tools for lecture capture, screen capture, content creation, presentation and other purposes. On the home…

Let me touch my words again!

I love my Kindle. It’s a great little eReader. The battery lasts a a month and I can read all the books in the world on it. After traveling to multiple countries and living abroad with it, my arm and shoulder muscles have to thank Amazon for allowing me to leave the burden of…

State Permanence

Watching my parents and others of the baby boomer generation use technology has always fascinated me. Everyone knows the concept of digital immigrant vs. digital native. When I first read about the concept my initial response was ‘Duh!’. The fact that I grew up with it, while my parents did not…

Spoiled by multi-touch

I was sitting in a training session for use on Interactive whiteboards the other day and the trainer wanted to zoom in on something that was on the screen. Out of the small audience of seasonsed NSW teacher educators came the suggestion “why don’t you use two hands to zoom? try that”.