This is one of my favourite video clips to share with people as they begin to explore using ICTs for learning and teaching Languages (and people who’ve been exploring for a while, too!).

One of the messages it really drives home for me is the importance of having a variety of accessible professional learning opportunities available [...]

I generated this Word Cloud at http://www.wordle.net with the tags currently being used in my research database. This does not account for the frequency of use of those tags in the database itself, but rather the frequency of the words in the list of tags as a whole. If this doesn’t make sense, don’t worry [...]

I am currently (still!) analysing data collected during fieldwork for this research project. I now have renewed respect for those in the transcription business, and very much wishing I had been more organised during data collection. That would certainly help a lot now when I’m trudging through, categorising and clumping data (I’m sure there’s more [...]

I constructed these slides (get it? Constructed?) to help me get my head around “social constructionism” vs “social constructivism” whilst writing my methodology chapter for my doctoral dissertation. The following presentation represents my understandings, and its value/accuracy/trustworthiness will, in turn, depended upon your own understandings.

Social Constructi-on/v-ism: Same-same lah but different?

I’m always intrigued by the idea of technological determinism, and the debates for/against in education circles. There are those who approach technology as a tool (“it’s about the teach, not the tech”) and those who approach technology from a more critical perspective, seeing it as an advocate for change, i.e., technology “does something”. [...]

I know the importance of organization during any project. Home renovations, cooking a lamb roast, going to a concert, conducting fieldwork for research. It will go a lot more smoothly (and be more useful) if you plan, conduct and keep it organized as you go.
I didn’t do this very well during my fieldwork. I was [...]

Is e-learning a structured learning environment, such as BlackBoard or WebCT, or is it the total sum of one’s “learning network” with the myriad devices (and people), online and off?
This question came up on a mailing list recently (asking about university policies on e-learning that aren’t just about the LMS), and occurred to me again [...]

This was my editorial for the Term One edition of Warta WILTA.
Do our students suffer from Qantas Syndrome? Do we get them to sit in rows, face the front, strap in (don’t move unless completely necessary), and switch off all devices until they reach their destination? Do we offer a broad range [...]