Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

This was an attempt to SMS text and an image to my blog from a mobile phone. None of the text made it into the blog – lost somewhere along the way. The image clearly worked and I have managed to blog both an image and text from a phone, via flickr, using [...]

New Zealand is undergoing review of its curriculum for its schools using a methodology of co-construction which seeks to gain as broad a consensus across stakeholder groups as possible. One interesting document that has come out of this is Key competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum

The purpose of this document is to [...]

Think I have sussed it this time. There are two separate email addresses, one that just posts images in flicker and the other that
forerds them onto your blog.

I am trying to set up Flickr to receive emailed images/text and then send it on through to my MT blog as a post. I want to do this for four reasons:
1. the ability to easily blog email correspondence by simply adding another email address
2. to be able to send photographs taken on [...]

A learning object from the BBC that will have possibilities for those interested in the English language and how both the spoken and written word vary (some issues for Safari and Firefox browsers at the moment!). Two simple drop down menus allow is to plot themes on a map of the UK such as [...]

This would be a challenging film for some mainly because of the script and possibly because of the use of marionettes reminiscent of Thunderbirds, although more sophisticated in their facial expressions.
I chose to view the film as a critical commentary on ‘Team America’. However, with scenes like Michael Moore as a suicide [...]

I attended a workshop on Communities of Practice (CoP) run by Etienne Wenger the other day. This was a stunningly good workshop, enabling me to re-visit the ideas behind CoP. The theory is located in a subjective dimension and is characterized by a belief that reality is a product of the individual’s social [...]