Ruaha National Park, was the fifth game park of the trip, and was also one of the remotest in Tanzania. Mike had seen it all, experienced the elephants of Tarangire National Park, swatted tseste flies and swallowed his antimalarial medication throughout the journey. He had seen the stark flatness and openness of Serengeti and the [...]
Darrell unzipped the tent with his gloved hand and entered gruffly and stood above him….”You’re up…” Bob couldn’t believe it was already his turn. Bob rubbed his eyes fearing the moment, the voice and the words that were uttered to him… Bob’s eyes were wide, fearful and looked as though he had seen and heard [...]
Salim sat cross-legged as frankincense flooded the room and the sweet coffee soothed him. He stared out the window lost in thought. His long white robes covered him from shoulder to ankle and his embroidered hat sat elegantly on his dark black hair. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he stood, moving slowly at first [...]
I have been invited to present at the CODE International Symposium committee an annual international symposium to be held in Chiba, Japan, on Thursday, February 16, 2012. The symposium will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. The Center of ICT and Distance Education (CODE), the Open University of Japan (http://www.ouj.ac.jp/eng/), is a research center [...]
At the 2011 ascilite conference in Hobart on the 6th December I was honoured to receive a Life Member Award "in recognition of sustained and outstanding service to ascilite through significant contributions toward the leadership, key directions and core strategic activities of the ascilite community". This was the 10th Life Member Award presented in the 30 [...]
At the 2011 ascilite conference in Hobart I conducted a workshop on the Good Practice Report: Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching that Gordon Suddaby, Natasha Hard and myself completed for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. The workshop focussed on three key questions: How do we recognise Good Practice in technologically-enhanced learning and teaching? How do we [...]
