Category Archives: Personal

Generating ambient intimacy

By Derek | Published: June 25, 2010
Maybe it sounds a bit too touchy feely, but I’ve been thinking more and more that there’s a need for a place in an educational setting where there are opportunities for students and faculty to create a feeling of connectedness, a spot for sharing and belonging. The hyper public world has created such places. Intimate strangers [...]
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Potholes ahead – caution advised

By Derek | Published: April 7, 2010
Computer literacy training, employing experts and certification are three potholes on the info-bahn that might damage your  institutions attempts to effectively use ICT. Goveia and Soule’s article argues that if we are to foster ongoing and sustainable use of learning technologies in schools, there are three common “potholes” that we need to watch out for, [...]
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Information and Confusion

By Derek | Published: January 19, 2010
I love the rough and ready index cards that Jessica Hagy uses with her “Venn Dadagrams” at Indexed. Her Needles and Haystacks graph (slide 3)perfectly captures the befuddled brain after a long morning of course introductions. AV / Ed Tech Introduction View more presentations from Derek Moore. To finish off their befuddlement, I hauled out the data projector [...]
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Re-arranging the deckchairs

By Derek | Published: January 12, 2010
My “multi-tasking”, “threaded”, “distributed”, “distracted” world tends to make concentrated work and thought rare. This year, I’d like to see if I can look up, look inside, take time to breathe, talk to myself, be still and mindful before I jump straight into the vast connected chamber that I work in. Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of [...]
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Mindfulness

By Derek | Published: June 3, 2009
Spend the weekend at Solitude on a photography retreat. Thomas Merton, Richard Rhor, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Eckhart Tolle and photography were brought together by Bear and Sharon for a Mindfulness weekend. The two facilitator worked amazingly well to introduce themes that had both a place in photography and spirituality. Sojme of the thoughts that [...]
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