Simon Brown

61, Male

Brisbane

Australia

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
SkillsTech Australia
Blog
http://stomas.ning.com
Website
http://simonbrown.wikispaces.com
Favored IM Account
http://www.plurk.com/user/skytrystsjoy
Skype Account
sdmbrown
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
http://twitter.com/skytrystsjoy
About Me
After 20 years working as a stonemason and part-time trade skills teacher, an opportunity arose to teach stonemasonry full time. I embraced the chance to both learn more about my trade, and to help others gain a qualification in this area. Social networking makes it so easy to share e-learning heutagogy with colleagues around the world.
Plurk me at skytrystsjoy and chat about vocational educational and training issues.

Comment Wall:

  • clayssen

    I accept your invitation, of course.
    Happy to know peope living so far from me (Paris, France) and interested in the same topics.

    www.archicampus.net/wordpress
    (in french...)

    Jul 24, 2007

  • Laura Rebecca

    hi from Long Island, New York!

    Jul 24, 2007

  • Deirdre Bonnycastle

    Hi Simon, I've had a long love affair with stone. Stone houses are rare here on the Canadian prairies but I always feel a great joy when I see one. Most of them were built in the 1880's when immigrants from Europe first arrived.

    Jul 24, 2007

  • Jim Jonas

    Thanks for the invitation. I look forward to working with you in the future.

    Jul 24, 2007

  • paine

    Hi!
    thank you for the invitation!
    I am from Argentina and very happy to meet people from places so far away!.
    I know my english is awful but I really doing my best!.
    See you (or better "read you")

    Jul 24, 2007

  • karenkemper

    Hi,
    Thanks for the invitation, I look forward to talking with you on-line
    Karen

    Jul 24, 2007

  • Marian Thacher

    Wow, what diversity is here. Stonemasonry and social bookmarking - all right!

    Jul 24, 2007

  • Daniel Bassill

    Thanks for the invitation. I've networked with folks from Australia ever since I started using the Internet about 9 years ago. I hope we can connect around some common goals.

    Jul 25, 2007

  • Vonnie

    Hi Simon,
    Thanks for inviting me too! I'm also a huge fan on the powers of social networking. I've only recently joined the Ning Classroom2.0 community.

    Jul 26, 2007

  • George F. Washington

    Hi Simon

    I hope we can find some common points of interest in the Technology arena.

    Jul 28, 2007

  • Sue

    Thanks Simon. great to get some aussie links on the go

    Aug 5, 2007

  • Chris Betcher

    G'day Simon... thanks for the add. :-) I'm new to this particular community, but looking forward to some great networking.

    Aug 5, 2007

  • George F. Washington

    Simon...Fortunately, in our school system we are beginning to move more and more into the Web based arena vs. dealing with client server issues that definitely have compatibility issues. After reading the book The World is Flat, I am learning that I am behind times by just beginning to think in this way.

    Aug 5, 2007

  • Simon Brown

    Thanks for the tip, George. I've requested "The World is Flat" (2006 edition) from my local library.
    Funny we were only just talking about compatibility. The Department blocked access to my students' Ning network today.

    Aug 6, 2007

  • Nicole Green

    Thank you for the invitation. I love the wiki explanation video. I'm going to post it on my blog. Thanks again!

    Aug 21, 2007

  • Simon Brown

    My students' network social bookmarking site is at http://del.icio.us/stonemasonry

    I arranged tags and tag cloud according to learning topics.

    Aug 23, 2007

  • Diane Mackenzie

    Hi SImon - I am looking forward to exploring Classroom 2.0 for some ideas

    Aug 28, 2007

  • JoNelle

    Thank you helping out so much with Skype. Your timing was great without even trying to be perfect. Love your ideas about "reach students unable to attend class, and to bring specialists into the class space." This opens up more ideas. I have 2 webcams - one to travel around our school and then maybe out to our community. It turns out that we have a few families who use Skype to contact their families. That tells me we have some willing specialist - I hope.
    My students want to know if you will visit my blog- they want to see a red dot on Australia on the Clustr map:)AND know who it is. You have caused quit a stir!
    The other classes are jealous - the news has spread. We will break out Google Earth next time for some math lessons too. It was a great week.

    Aug 31, 2007

  • Simon Brown

    Hi JoNelle, keep up the good work with your class, it's so exciting to read about what you are doing.

    I'd like to tell you about my classroom and its location in Brisbane (rhymes with Lisbon). It's at Eagle Farm, and you can see it if you copy and paste this link into your web browser, and then open it in Google Earth:
    http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=989357

    Eagle Farm is featured in Wikipedia.

    Sep 1, 2007

  • Tim Holt

    Simon!
    Cant wait to meet you on the Skype call on Friday, 3:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time (UT-6)

    Tim
    El Paso

    Sep 6, 2007

  • Allon Mason

    Hi Simon, how are you? Have you heard of YouFig.com? It's a useful site for collaboration between students and between teacher & class. It's invitation only and I still have a few invites left. Let me know if you'd like one. Looking forward to seeing you around here.

    Sep 10, 2007

  • Tim Holt

    Simon, My version of the Friday podcast is online:

    http://web.mac.com/timholt/Byte_Speed/Pod_Speed/Pod_Speed.html

    Enjoy.

    Tim

    Sep 10, 2007

  • Simon Brown

    Mate, I stuck the one you sent me here: http://construction-teachers.wikispaces.com/

    No idea what I'm doing but it's fun - thanks Tim!

    Sep 11, 2007

  • samccoy

    Enjoy your work! Your ning network is a great idea! I will share this info with others of like mind and training

    Nov 1, 2007

  • Simon Brown

    Thanks - new intake of students on Monday, hope to get them circulating at Ning too.

    Nov 1, 2007

  • Rashmi Kathuria

    Thanks for appreciating the video. In my mathematics laboratory.students are exposed to hands on activities ustilising various strategies. I am posting activities on my class blog http://mykhmsmathclass.blogspot.com .Your ideas and suggestions are welcome.
    Regards

    Dec 28, 2007

  • Patricia Donaghy

    Hi Simon. You might also be interested in adding your blog details to the International Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com
    Patricia

    Mar 19, 2008

  • Lynn Marentette

    I signed up for Twitter, but I never started using it. I'll have to got to the Twitter site and find out my Twitter name.

    Mar 19, 2008

  • Derek Baird

    hi simon,

    have you checked out learnhub yet? it might be a good way for you to share your knowledge on stone masonry with both students and other folks interested in learning more.

    here's the url: http://www.learnhub.com

    my learnhub is here: http://learnhub.com/users/derekeb

    cheers!

    Jul 26, 2008

  • Govinda Prasad Panthy

    Hello simon
    I'm a school teacher from Nepal. I really dn't have any idea abt Stone Masonry. Can you give me idea abt it? HOpe u'll consider me one of your friends and let give me more ideas how i teach my students better.

    Nov 4, 2008

  • Barry Bakin

    Hello Simon! Thanks for teaching me a new word related to education! I had to go look up "heutagogy" and found that by looking it up myself I was doing it!

    Nov 8, 2008