October 25, 2022 / Last updated : November 1, 2022 pirongia Personal

New York, arriving

Long trip of 17 hours went by rather nicely after all and we both got a decent sleep too. One piece of luggage never arrived but they found it stuck in a chute somewhere eventually. Other than that JFK was efficient and the yellow cab driver helpful. We recovered pretty quickly and on the Saturday […]

July 28, 2022 / Last updated : July 28, 2022 pirongia Around & about

Desktops 1

I have a number of photos that I have used as desktops on various computers. Most of them hold some memory or have a background of some meaning for me. The quality of the photos however, is quite variable. In this occasional series I will describe some of those. We might sub-title this one “tranquility”.

January 14, 2019 / Last updated : January 14, 2019 pirongia Development

Moodle Development: getting started.

What I’ve learned about Moodle Development over the last two years.

January 10, 2019 / Last updated : January 10, 2019 pirongia Personal

Richard Jones

Quick overview of richard’s professional background and experience.

April 16, 2014 / Last updated : April 16, 2014 pirongia Personal

The Internet in 2034

A little piece I wrote recently for the Coursera Course by Dr Chuck (Charles Severance) on Internet History, Technology and Security. An excellent course by the way, you may know much about the technology already but the interviews are quite fascinating.

July 30, 2013 / Last updated : July 30, 2013 pirongia eLearning Perspectives

School Trek

In the keynote I try to show why it is that the time for technology to finally change the nature of education has arrived. For me, this is a journey that started in 1990, for others (notably Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow – ACOT) it started as far back as 1985.