• Driving from Melbourne (Fitzroy) to Uluru (Ayres Rock)

    Driving from Melbourne (Fitzroy) to Uluru (Ayres Rock)

    Over the Christmas break, I plan to drive the immortal distance from Fitzroy in Melbourne to Uluru, Central Australia. I have never driven this far in Australia before, and luckily I will be with my dapper co-pilot, Sebastian from Cuenca in Ecuador (who I met during that other monumental road trip). Thankfully we will be…

  • Would you like to chat? The Ethics of AI in Higher Education

    Would you like to chat? The Ethics of AI in Higher Education

    I recently led a session at the eResearch Australasia conference on the ethics of AI in higher education. It is a big topic to handle, and I’m pretty new to this stuff, but the conversation went pretty well, and the awareness of both AI and ethics is high in this community. The ethical challenges posed…

  • Is there a beyond in Constructive Alignment?

    Is there a beyond in Constructive Alignment?

    Next week at the ASCILITE conference, I will be conducting a debate about the pros and cons of ‘Constructive Alignment’ in higher education, especially as it relates to digital learning tools. Debates are a really good pedagogy in terms of outlining the pros and cons of a topic and building the soft and hard skills…

  • Black Cat Fitzroy

    Black Cat Fitzroy

    I’ve been visiting the Black Cat Fitzroy for as long as I can remember. The first time I came to this bohemian dive was sometime around 1988. It has managed to reinvent and reinvigorate itself, perhaps a little more than I have. It was one of the original cafes in the district that helped build…

  • Returning to South America

    Returning to South America

    Late last year, I returned to Ecuador in South America on snug annual leave to revisit that agreeable country. I was there for just over a week, which was admittedly, a bit ‘loco’ considering I spent about a similar amount of time on aeroplanes getting there. Flying over so much rich geo-cultural context like a…

  • Bullet proof moto

    Bullet proof moto

    I have been riding a perfunctory and rather average Suzuki GS500 for close to 10 years now. In fact, I like them so much, that this is my third one. I rode a GS every day in London for three years, which was some of the best bus-dodging moto-riding of my life, and I have…