Welcome to my blog

Hi guys and welcome to my blog.
Please don't be put off by my blog's title "Dangerous Dave". This was a name I adopted from one of my first classes I lectured here mid last year teaching CAD. The students had a thing with danger mouse (a carton programme I think) and when I chastised a few of them copying work, as well as most of them looking at the 'trade me' site when I wasn't looking, well the rest is history. They would also start squecking whenever I taught them something new with the programme, which demonstrates the variety of students we have these days!
I am a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, teaching the diploma level subjects here at Otago Polytechnic. I have been involved in engineering for most of my working life which is some 28 years there abouts. In that time, my experience ranged from apprenticeship through to self employed design engineer / draftsperson. To put that in perspective, my position here at the Polytech will be my 29 contract of employment. Yes, I have been around the block a few times. I am hoping that this will be a long and fruitful relationship, and as I am finding out, as I think most of you are, there is never a dull moment.
Which brings me to here; - What is flexible learning to me? I think I said in my face to face meeting with our three respected facilitators that it meant Work. Ah yes, that nasty word.
On reflection, I now believe that it is being flexible in our delivery approach to our particular subjects depending on the students that we are teaching. The computer is just another tool (a very powerful one at that I have to admit) that I use every day in my work, BUT, I treat the computer as that - simply a tool and not something that I have to rely on for everything. Flexible learning, to me, means that there are quite a number of tools available to me as a teacher for delivering my respected subjects across to the students, and as I have shown, not all students are the same, so it is up to me to choose the most appropriate method for delivery.
The main goal for me from this course on flexible delivery is to be able to make a rational and educated choice on the appropriate delivery method available to me for teaching a subject to a variety of students and if that method happens to end up being using the internet or computer as part of that choice, then I want to be fully competent in achieving that task.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I think I will get off my apple box now and sit in a corner and nibble on some cheese.