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Deconstructing Michael: Part One Vision
Who is Michael you say? Well Michael Barbour, Assistant Professor in Instructional Technology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. And I’m not really deconstructing him. It is more a discussion on the main themes of his paper on the Virtual Learning Network. This is the first post in a series on the topic. If [...]
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Leadership Event: Networked Schooling (WestNet)
We recently ran our third leadership event for the Southern Central Divide Regional Cluster. Once again we focused on analysing the possibilities of networked schooling, but this time we did it out on the West Coast for the WestNet principals. There were many similarities to the event we did in CantaNet last year, but this time [...]
Deconstructing Michael: Part Two Funding, Resources and the role of the ePrincipal
In part two Michael analyses the resourcing of the clusters and in particular the role of the ePrincipal. He makes the point that no ePrincipal could clearly define the role so it will be very difficult to gain funding from the Ministry (which is what most want). I have pulled a few points out below. [...]
Deconstructing Michael: Part One Vision
Who is Michael you say? Well Michael Barbour, Assistant Professor in Instructional Technology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. And I’m not really deconstructing him. It is more a discussion on the main themes of his paper on the Virtual Learning Network. This is the first post in a series on the topic. If [...]
NCEA Analysis 2012
Well what I can say. Seems like results are improving slowly year by year, although not in any way that suggests dramatic improvement. One thing is for certain – this works as far as NCEA results go. I would expect to see the blue portion grow over the next few years. The next stage [...]
Tekapo Retreat: Day Two and Three / What makes effective PD?
We started day two with a bit of a review of day one and then moved straight into our second unconference. I was involved in a couple of interesting discussions around BYOD, tablets (follow up post coming on this) and developing a personal learning network (using rss feeds and twitter). Once again it was great [...]
