hugely disappointing opening keynote from James Dalziel of Macquarie Uni on sharing elearning ideas. The content itself is valid and certainly from it I will remember the thought that if we wait until the tension between school operating networks and the latest innovations in education dies down, we will be waiting forever. However it was basically a long winded Uni lecture backed up with basic black and White PowerPoint. This from an internationally recognised innovator in eLearning.

Today I will do a workshop on GarageBand and Sibelius 7(both tools operated by our own music department), I’ll also take part in hands on sessions about iPads and iPods. I’m most looking forward to a student panel working with a roomful of educators to enlighten us as to what they feel is best practice. I can’t wait.

As a side thought – I’m here on a conference to look at innovative learning. On the way into the lecture theatre I passed three classrooms. Each one had boys sitting silently behind a desk typing notes onto a laptop. The teacher a the front was writing on a whiteboard with his back to the class whilst talking. I realise this was just a tiny snapshot of classroom practice but it certainly gave me something to think about.