Jo-ann Larkins

Author: Jo-ann Larkins

I teach compulsory first year statistics courses at a small regional campus of a large Australian University across a number of departments mainly science and Business and Economics. Some of my students are studying totally online. For light relief and preservation of my sanity, I also teach reading writing and research skills to second year science students.

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

#ocTEL Activity 0.1: My Big Question?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

Jo-ann Larkins Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I’ve been pondering My Big Question for the use of TEL in my teaching for the last week or so. It’s been an amorphous sort of blob of an idea swimming around in the depths, resistant to taking a concrete form. It’s been teasing and eluding me.So,…

Tagged with: #ocTEL, my big question

Re: introduction

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Jo-ann Larkins Posted in Course Reader, JISCMail, Lists

Hi Jack,I think you are right about acronyms. It can be extremely alienating. I’mploughing my way through the email deluge today, I have been GooglingDefine:XXX (Vague Acronym) lots.The two that get me most today are HE (Higher education? I think what …

Why this blog?

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Jo-ann Larkins Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Hi everyone. (Waves to anonymous cyberfolk).My name is Jo-ann Larkins and I teach at the beautiful Gippsland Campus of Monash University in Victoria, Australia.Image source: Monash UniversityI have a teaching position that I don’t think a lot of academ…