Catshanghai

I’ve just returned from Hainan Island with a group of 56 teenagers.
It was a great trip, but I am happy to be home in Shanghai even though the Shanghai weather is deteriorating day by day. Highlights in Hainan included Houhai Beach and Yanoda Rainforest Park.
I was a teacher supervisor, which meant I spent the week [...]

I’m delighted to be part of the organising committee for the Learning 2.008 Conference, which is taking place in Shanghai between September 18th and 20th at SCIS Hongqiao. It’s good to share company with such an enthusiastic, talented and forward looking group.
Learning 2.008 is South East Asia’s gathering of educators and learning technologists. It’s an [...]

Everybody is writing reviews of the past year so I will join in too. 2007 has been a great year for us, although it has not been without struggle and frustration. I have just been scanning this year’s blog posts as a prompt for the some of the highlights, which I will summarise below:
Personal Stuff
We [...]

Recently, I have been thinking about the history of Internet bookmarking and its future possibilities. In particular, I have been anticipating a situation where bookmarking is used as a tool to check the reliability of websites, building on the process I summarised in yesterday’s post. Here is my overview of bookmarking.
Bookmarking 1.0 (1990s to 2004)
Bookmarking [...]

I once overheard a semi famous drum and bass DJ called Sev talk about keeping it real when he was giving an interview to a lifestyle magazine at a Bristol cafe sometime in the spring of 2003. The phrase made me snigger, because it struck me that asserting your authenticity so emphatically was a clear [...]

Here is the copy from my weekly ICT column in the school newsletter.
I have seen students use lots of different tools and methods to take notes when they are researching information from the Internet.
The most common method I have seen is to copy and paste extracts on to a Word document. There is nothing [...]

I have just finished this week’s column for our school newsletter, which is basically a campaign to get everyone writing blogs, largely inspired by Jeff Utecht’s forays at SAS Pudong.
You may have noticed that we’ve been getting our secondary students to set up blogs or weblogs as part of their ICT classes. I want to [...]

We’ve just spent an entertaining and enlightening weekend at the Learning2cn education technology conference at Concordia International School in Jingqiao.
The topics covered included podcasts, wikis, cyberbullying and making exciting lessons within a technology setting. Issues related to laptop schools may seem irrelevant to most of us, but the event is groundbreaking inasmuch as it is [...]

I’ve started to write a weekly column for my school newsletter to get everyone excited about technology, answer questions and give advice. I tried to make the column interactive by inviting questions and comments from readers. Anyway, I set the scene with this first article.
Computers are everywhere. We can see and enjoy their impact on [...]

China should be an obvious beneficiary of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Scheme, which seeks to provide robust $100 portable Internet computers to children in developing countries. Behind the headlines of double digit growth and urban prosperity, two thirds of Chinese still live in the countryside and two hundred million people earn less than [...]