Comments seem to have disappeared

Hiya folks,

For some reason known to those much more technically minded than me right now, the comments for each week appear to have disappeared from the published pages.

I can see comments in the dashboard (behind the scenes), but they're not visible at the front. I'm confident they'll re-appear when we're not looking, as these things do in the e-world.

Thank you everyone for commenting so far.Best of luck with your assessment items.

Cheers, Leesa

17th October
Update: Hi folks, I'm still working on resolving the lost comments issue.

Please note: your comments are still there, I can see them, it's just that they've disappeared from the published page. You don't need to re-send your comments unless you were already having problems loading them beforehand. I'm about to do a few techie-things right now and see if I can get the comments back to you. The look of the blog may alter a bit while I fiddle. Wish me luck. 

Your comment not showing up?

I've had a few emails (via Jean) of some students' comments not showing up after they've typed them in. It's a thousand light years beyond my technical ability to suggest why this might be so. I sincerely apologise.

If you have a comment you would like included but the Blogging-Gods are being bad to you, please email me directly at lwatego [@] gmail.com and I'll upload them for you.

Also, when sending comments to my email, please include them in the body of the email and not as an attachment. I don't use Microsoft Office software (only Google Docs) so I can't read Word documents.

If you're concerned about your comment not showing up make sure you select the text and copy it BEFORE you click publish.

Thanks for your patience.

The Last Post

Sorry for the delay folks. I mis-read my calendar and was a week behind.

The last post is up. Thanks for all the great comments on the first two posts. I've been reading them all. Best of luck with your last assessments.

If you're interested I post daily Indigenous links on the Critical Classroom Facebook page. If you're not keen on Facebook you can get the daily links from my Critical Classroom Delicious Stack.

Also note, Google Plus is now open to the world so you don't need an invitation to access and connect.

Be deadly!

Cheers, Leesa

One final video for week 4

Hi everyone,

As we come to the end of week 4 I just wanted to say thanks reading & engaging with the materials and thanks for the comments.

It sounds like people's understanding's shifted. There were shifts in how you see yourselves as well as in seeing others.

I wanted to share with you one of my favourite videos before you go. It's a lecture by the wonderful Sir Ken Robinson, and it's animated by RSA animate. See you again in week 7.

Enjoy.

Week 4 post is now up!!

The first post is done. Go to the page called Week 4: shaped and framed. Please make comments at the bottom of that post on the Week 4 page.

Cheers, Leesa

Create your PLN (personal learning network) now

I'm not going to write about how to to create a PLN cause I'm here to talk about #IndigEd stuff. Also, there are bunch of people who have already explained it, who are doing right, who lead the way in learning & using the social web (IMO). See below links. 

While this blog is about Indigenous Studies not about the social web, I argue that the social web is a great tool for you as a student, and then later on as a professional, to increase your understanding of Indigenous studies and Indigenous issues.

Learning does not occur in 13 week blocks, nor does it occur in timetable-able chunks. Learning is circular, or angular or twisted. It's rarely linear. If you're like me, then you spend a bunch of time completely confused by what the hell you're supposed to be learning and understanding before you get clarity. And if you're new to Indigenous studies, then I'm guessing (if you're really engaging), that that confusion is amplified.

Creating a PLN that you can access for this 13 week semester and beyond (the most important time in your teaching career) will help you to get through the myriad of truths, paradoxes and contradictions that you will face as you try to implement what you’ve learned as an enrolled student.

This blog will give you what you need for 3 of the 13 weeks of topics. But more importantly I hope you will use it as a catalyst to thinking beyond the summative needs of this unit/course. 

The following folks are from a range of disciplines, but I recommend you follow - 

• Darcy Moore 
• Bianca Hewes
• Tomaz Lasic
• Jo Hart
• Tony Searl
• Tom Barrett
• Ben Jones
• Michael Fawcett
• Dean Groom
• Jacqui Sharp 
• Sally Leaney

There are heaps more, but this list should be a kick-start. If you have any others edu-heads to recommend, please add them below.

Having a go at the blog-lecture

This is the first time that I've been given the opportunity to properly substitute a lecture for a blog post (though I've wanted to do it for a few years now).Normally I'll simply blog about a lecture after I've given the 'performance'.


I'm keen on trying this experiment as I think there's an opportunity to practice on a platform that many/some of you will be delivering in when you become professional teachers. You can ask questions via the comments section, and you'll also have more time (more than the actual lecture & tutorial time) as well as having additional hyperlinks on your side. Some of you will also already be blogging about your learning, so you can also share your own thoughts via your own blogs too.

As with any experiment there must be a first time. So here it is...