education

Starting a PhD

ed tech, edtech, education, PhD, teaching by Colin Simpson

This is me, today, Tuesday the 1st of March 2016. This is the day that I officially start my PhD studies (is it studies or research?) with the Faculty of Education and Social Work at […]

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Week 2 of the 11.133x MOOC – getting things done. (Gradually)

11.133x, clicker, ed tech, edtech, education, feedback, mooc, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

The second week (well fortnight really) of the 11.133x MOOC moved us on to developing some resources that will help us to evaluate education technology and make a selection. Because I’m applying this to an actual […]

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Two great presentations from iMoot – Jim Judges and Gina Veliotis

discussion, ed tech, education, education design by Colin Simpson

The iMoot online Moodle conference was held recently and while the overall standard of presentations was quite high, there were two stand-outs for me. Jim Judges from the University of Warwick in the UK was […]

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Try-a-tool challenge Week 3 – LessonPaths and Blendspace

curation, education, education design, elearning, multimedia, resource creation by Colin Simpson

This challenge is about a couple more content curation tools – LessonPaths and Blendspace. On first glance they don’t seem as rich or interactive as Ted.Ed but I’ll see what I’m able to put together […]

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Try-a-tool challenge Week 2 – ed.ted.com

ed tech, education, education design, elearning, free, interaction, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

The last couple of months a little hectic, with wrapping up one job and starting another (I’m now in the College of Business and Economics (CBE) at the Australian National University (ANU)) and so I have […]

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Does your new technology create innovation?

edtech, education, education design by Colin Simpson

Great post on eschoolnews by Alan November about six questions that you should ask when implementing new technology in your education institution. It’s very easy to believe that you’re fostering innovation by having new toys but […]

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Rejigging professional development training for teachers – Sarah Thorneycroft

discussion, ed tech, education, education design, elearning, professional development by Colin Simpson

Sarah Thorneycroft (@sthcrft) from the University of New England (Australia) often impresses with her thoughtful presentations about dragging academics and teaching staff into the 21st century when it comes to professional development in online teaching […]

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Final thoughts on DDLR / DDeLR

assessment, education, education design, learning, reflection by Colin Simpson

It feels like I’ve been banging on about this subject forever now but with assessments now finalised, it seems like a good time for a final wrap up. In broad terms, I was a little […]

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Delivering DDLR & DDeLR: Reflections

edtech, education, education design, teachers, teaching, training by Colin Simpson

Life got quite busy in the last few weeks, so screenface had to go on the back-burner for a little while. I think it’s worth taking a look at what happened with the DDLR & […]

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Designing DDLR & DDeLR – (Over)Structuring activities

edtech, education, education design, reflection, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

I’ve been a bit caught up preparing for this course and consequently this post has been sitting in the draft section for a while now. I ran the first class last Friday (17/10) and it […]

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