April 2013
Walking 100km in 38 Hours
We just completed the gruelling Oxfam Trailwalker 100km event over the weekend. We walked for 38 hours including a five-hour sleep break. The first day took us through the highest part of the course after the [...]
November 2012
Teaching and Learning Research
It is wonderful to see that research into teaching and learning is being recognised as a "serious area of research int its own right" Upgrade for teaching research by: Andrew Trounson From: The Australian November 07, 2012 The morphing [...]
June 2012
Challenges in Using Technologies in Higher Education
Today I wanted to reflect on some of the challenges we face in higher education in relation to using technologies for learning and teaching. I believe the three main challenges centre on digital literacies, affordances [...]
May 2012
Places and Spaces at Massey University
After completing the beautiful two-hour drive from Wellington to Palmerston North I completed two invited presentations at Massey University on the 16th and 17th April. Before completing the first presentation I had a tour of the [...]
April 2012
Wellington Conference
As a first time attendee at the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) bi-annual conference I was impressed by the level of dialogue and enjoyed gaining an insight into the New Zealand Context. Mark Brown's [...]
Just a House…
There's something unsettling, uncomfortable and final about selling the family house, the only stable home I have known, where my late parents lived most of their lives. Having lived in eighteen different houses across three [...]