Short Story - Contraband

Coffee, check. News ready to go, check.

With a grin he looked around his empty office one last time to make sure he was the first one there. This was his favourite part of the morning, in the calmness of the office with no one to see he could relax before the day started, and even better he could...

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On Wednesday I finally got to try and experiment that I have been trying to organise for a good 3 months, I taught a class using multiple screens.

The first question (one my workmates were really interested to know the answer to) is of course, why. Two of my class are introductions to a new langua...

Web Games Teaching

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There are two ways to break down the learning of a more complicated process. Either you teach the student each individual piece and you let them work it all together into a total process, or you teach the whole process and let the student work out the individual steps and what they mean. So I'm refe...

Teaching

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Last trimester was my first foray into PBL (Project based learning). Unfortunately I was thrown into the course during week 4, so my students had already been given a rundown of what was going on and had been working on projects for a couple of weeks. Because of this (and also my relative newness to...

PBL Teaching

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Fear of HTML

In the Graphic Design course at my university you are required to do a small class of HTML (basic markup and CSS) in order to continue past trimester 2. This course is incredibly basic and would leave the student with the basis required to continue honing their skills, nothing more. However more tha...

Web Teaching

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