Category Archives: Design

My sucessful and mediocre attempts at design.

Filling in Digital Dongas

By Derek | Published: February 8, 2010

In a world where an estimated 90% of email is spam it’s irresponsible for universities to hand out free email addresses to those trying to climb out of the digital donga. So, as a service to my pre-service PGCE teachers, an addition to your student diary.

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Knowledgeable or knowledge-able

By Derek | Published: February 2, 2010

Class teachers should ask themselves whether they intend to use Information and Communications Technology to make themselves more knowledgeable or their students more knowledge-able. Or will this responsibility be left to rapid technological change and inherent generational characteristics. From Knowledgeable To Knowledge-Able View more presentations from Derek Moore.

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Pecha Kucha Pietermaritzburg?

By Derek | Published: January 22, 2010

Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit-chat”, is a presentation format that combines business meeting and slam poetry and turns endless Power Point presentations into an art form and a competitive sport. Initially introduced by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, two Architects from Tokyo’s Klein-Dytham Architecture that were hosting an event for young designers to meet, network, [...]

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Web Wednesday Chit Chat and Workshops

By Derek | Published: January 5, 2010

I’d like to experiment with hosting and running a set of alternate bi-monthly chit chats and workshops for people that want to share their digital stories and extend their use of the net. These events will take place on the first Wednesday of the month and will collectively be known as WebWed. Chit Chat At [...]

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Inform, don’t meform

By Derek | Published: December 8, 2009

“Inform them, catch their attention, don’t meform and angst” say the Social Media gurus. Always on the look out for tools that can assist me do the above – and I’ve recently installed two WordPress plugins that offered information possibilities. Twitter Tools Link Within. Twitter Tools is plugin that integrates your WordPress blog and your [...]

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Join the conversation

By Derek | Published: November 17, 2009

Vadim Lavrusik’s article – 10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media on Mashable prompted me to explore about how South African Universities, and particularly public affairs or faculties are making use of Social Media. From what I found (and this is not authoritative, my little network does not cover all 23 higher ed institutions [...]

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Wordled & taguled my thesis

By Derek | Published: November 2, 2009

I hauled out the old thesis and copied & pasted the text into Wordle. Yishay persuaded me to take it further and submit it to the I wordled my thesis group on Flickr. The thesis seems more accessible as a tag cloud and, when enlarged, it visually summerises the key words and ideas contained in [...]

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“What teachers make”

By Derek | Published: March 4, 2009

Taylor Mali is a teacher and poet. He’s a advocate for teachers and the nobility of teaching profession. He’s got a great poem entitled “What teachers make”. I like the way that the poem has been visualised. It’s a great example of a sticky presentation Taylor has and asked (and answered) the question – What [...]

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