Somewhere in the programme for pretty-well every workshop I’ve run in the past decade and more has been an activity for participants on analysing educational technologies, using Tony Bates’ SECTIONS model. It’s an update on his previous ACTIONS model, which I unsurprisingly also used in the dim and distant past. The model is useful, it engages participants and leads to fruitful discussion and debate. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Book review 3: two books by Lawrence Osborne
The overwhelmingly positive review I browsed filled me with eager anticipation for Lawrence Osborne’s The Ballad of a Small Player. An element of the attraction was that it is set in Macau and Hong Kong, a city I lived in for 15 years. Continue reading