Educational Development

Take a look at this virtual tour of the Forth Street Campus in Dunedin. It uses the free photo storage and sharing service Flickr. If you like the look of Flickr, how about you join the Tekotago group and add pictures of life and work there.

After you've had a look at that, take a look at the Wikipedia entry for Otago Polytechnic (Tekotago) and help build the entry by adding what you learn and know to it.

The staff member who created these resources, also blogged the experience here.

Now, I really want to emphasize that it's not so much the finished, not even nearly finished content that I have developed here that is important - but the learning through creation of content I am undergoing.

It is using the process of creation to improve learning. It is Seymour Papert's constructionism.

Bronwyn, Leigh and Terry are Pragramme Developers in the Educational Development Centre of Otago Polytechnic. Their role is to research educational developments and help teachers develop online and flexible learning opportunities in their courses. This web log documents this work.