James Picton

Male

Coomera, Queensland

Australia

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Art teacher / Teacher Librarian
Website
http://www.artofjimbo.com
Favored IM Account
jimbo 'at' artofjimbo 'dot' com
Skype Account
jimbo_cymru
About Me
I'm heavily into ICT / Multimedia and enjoy blurring the boundaries between traditional and digital art.

Prior to commencing my postgrad teaching studies I've spent over ten years working within the ICT / Multimedia industry. In my most recent role, I worked for 'a large organisation' (who shall remain nameless!) in support of e-learning and computer-based flexible delivery learning programs.

I have a Bachelor of Multimedia and am looking forward to dragging schools kicking and screaming into the 21st Century through flexible learning, instructional design, Problem Based Learning, animation, web quests etc.

I am currently employed as the Art Teacher and Teacher-Librarian at Coomera Rivers Primary School, on the beautiful Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia).

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  • Andrew Robitaille

    G'day James. Thanks for your comment on my profile. I only just discovered it. I'm glad you like my school's website (www.eschool.net.au). If you're needing to do some prac or work experience, feel free to look us up. You can read my iTeacher blog at http://iteacher.edublogs.org. All the best.

    Oct 29, 2007

  • Gavin McLean

    Great page James,
    Lots to explore and learn from here...Gavin

    Oct 4, 2008

  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi James,

    My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

    Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

    Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

    Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

    Thanks,

    Alyshia Olsen
    anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

    Dec 28, 2008