I’m not ‘afraid of no ghosts’! But frogs living down the U-bend of the toilet at the fish farm we visit with our aquaculture students TOTALLY freak me out! For some odd reason the males just don’t seem to understand! At least I don’t have to worry about students failing into the water and being eaten by Great White Sharks! Check out below this video of a field trip by Peter Preece’s aquaculture students to watch harvesting of Tuna cages…
I’ve been away since 31 July-7 August at two aquaculture conferences (in Queensland, Australia) where I got to network with other aquaculture educators and people from the aquaculture industry. The days were long but we all gained so much from networking. The reason I was invited to AquaED (the aquaculture conference for educators) was to do a 15 minutes presentation on e-learning in aquaculture training which was reduced to 10 minutes due to sessions running overtime. With limited time available…
Being based in Western Australia I don’t get much opportunity to get out and about! So the good news is next week I’m going to be in Queensland for two Aquaculture conferences. Trouble is — lets be honest here — there aren’t probably that many people in the aquaculture industry who are into blogging, podcasting, Web 2.0 like me. So I’m definitely concerned that I may get lonely and would really like to maximize my visit by also catching up…
Okay I’ve got an idea but I need your help to move it from the idea into making it work :). The Idea Let me explain. My real job is training people how to farm fish. I’ve had this idea ever since I read Kevin Jarrett’s Struggling with integrating technology into your curriculum? How about integrating … FISH?!?! which highlights the opportunities for educators to connect with an aquaponics facility through Ocean of Know. Kevin explains: Ocean of Know uses…
While most people enjoyed the weekend with their families I was working hard at work. Get out the violins please…. Several times a year I get my online aquaculture students to attend f2f workshops so that they can learn aquaculture skills and be assessed on their skills. My online students are all based off-campus and study their theory online. They work through interactive course material in WebCT which I supplement with fortnightly virtual classes using Elluminate. Most study aquaculture because…