Synapsys Blog - June 2004

'Professionalism Online' Presentation

Phil Garing and I recently attended the ASTE (Association of Staff in Tertiary Education) Professionalism Online conference in Wellington. It was a very stimulating and interesting few days.

I gave a presentation on Industry and Education Sector collaboration (viewable here). Poor Phil had a lovely presentation prepared, but his laptop died 10 minutes before he was meant to begin speaking. We think he did a fine job, anyway, though sadly, we don't have his presentation for you. If we do manage to rescue it, we'll post it.

Blogs for Learning

This article from the Australian Flexible Learning Network looks at how blogs can be leveraged to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences:

http://learnscope.flexiblelearning.net.au

It also offers a useful piece of advice:

"I strongly believe (and I say this to all my colleagues) that if you want to get up-to-speed in your field, just subscribe to the weblogs in your domain and read them everyday for at least six months. I can confidently say that this works as people who have tried it out tell me that they are learning a lot."

We'll add a list of links to this blog soon!