Speaker bio's

Instructional Designer

Wintec

stephen.harlow@wintec.ac.nz

Blogging

Scardamalia and Bereiter (1994) paraphrasing Alan Kay (1991) wrote "...the phenomenon of reframing innovations to recreate the familiar is itself commonplace."

I have been found guilty of reframing an innovation to recreate the familiar; my only solace is that as is suggested, this practice is commonplace. The innovation was the weblog and my crime was to use it to facilitate an asynchronous discussion.

This paper represents the lessons learnt from an online teaching experience in the facilitation of an online discussion.

Stephen Harlow is currently an instructional designer at the Waikato Institute of Technology, having previously worked as a secondary school teacher. In 2004 he was made a Flexible Learning Leader in New Zealand and investigated the use of storytelling in e-education. He is an active blogger and is passionate about the benefits e-Learning promises when we shift from our traditional teaching paradigm.