Session 12

Today Nuddy showed us a 46 minutes video called Leading@Google: Ngahi Bidois. Ngah Bidois is an indigenous Native Maori from New Zealand. He is the author of the book "Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions", his inspirational story of his quest to become a Modern Day Warrior. His book tells how a moment of insight reduced him to tears and set the one time corporate high flyer on the path to rediscovering who he really was.

After the video Nuddy asked us to discuss what we learnt from the video, and here are the findings from the video:

1. The true measure of leadership is influence.

2. As a leader/teacher, we need to be patient and have knowledge on how to fix the problem.

3. Ngahi mentioned that from some stages of his life he turned his back on his people. As a teacher we should treat everybody equal and we must not turn our back to someone.

4. Vaules - As a teacher we need to know who we are and what we are training some else for.

5. From the video Ngahihi mentioned the most important resource in many organisations are their people. If people feel valued and are appropriately developed their continued contribution is priceless.

6. Through proverbs and people to establish the purpose.

During the discussion Nuddy mentioned that everyone in the class has different ideas and opinions, and as a teacher we should respect their ideas.

After the dinner Nuddy using Skype to connect with Tony Richards from Curtin Unviersity at Australia, and we bring up the discussion on the use of technology in blended learning.

Here are the findings from the discussions:

1. With the use of online teaching (for example, Skype), it saves travelling cost for the student the come to the Universities/academic institutions to meet the lecturer.

2. Not always receive a good respond from the video conference. The teacher must have patient when using Skype and other softwares to carry out teaching, and the teacher need to have knowledge on how to fix the problem.

3. With the use of desktop video system teachers can record their sessions into videos, and teachers need to be aware the video compress software to compress the videos into CD-ROM for students who does not have internet access at home.