Albert Broomhead's Page

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Website: http://www.moodletown.net

About Me: I don't know what I am and I am quite happy about that. I have the tendency to rant on and go off in different directions. I enjoy getting lost in things and places. This can irritate people

I was a student in the UK and in Saskatchewan, Canada. (Hi to everyone there - I have very dear memories of the of the province). I studied and worked as academic economic forecaster in the 1980s. (error correction and Bayesian learning models) I have taught Economics, econometrics and mathematics during the 80s and 90s. The last decade I have taught English in Greece and occasionally in Egypt and Cyprus. Last year I was invited in for a couple of months to help build, launched and administrated the South East Europe Teachers Association moodle. I have an appetite for more.

I don't belong to any association and I work freelance

What am I doing now and why am I here?

1. I am trying to make my local community, parents, teachers and students, more creative and democratic. Collaborative learning encourages democracy and also the chance to re-invent ourselves. I have an experimental site. I don't recommend it (yet) - just playing around

2. I live in the Balkans. I was trying to find schools in different regions to share and work collectively. Identifying with each other as teachers, students or parents is more personal, and ought to be more powerful than race or nationality. Failing collectively can be more powerful than succeeding individually – we just call it a wiki. If you happen to be an econometrics student, then you may know about “errors” = “innovations” - the sum of which is called history

3. To use 2.0 tools with my own students. I teach privately outside the classroom, - I would rather teach independence

4. My daughter in trapped in a system where she is taught how not to think but how to memorize disposal bits of information

5. I was/am attempting a build a music site where musicians, song writers, composers and produces collaborate, produce, exchange and share the ownership and incomes of what they produce. I am still trying to puzzle out the economics of Web 2.0