Final post for the week… I’ve just got my Australian Citizenship through! Yay :D After almost 5 years to the day from landing in Melbourne and it’s been a heck of a journey!!! In honour of the occasion here’s the unofficial Australian national anthem (sung as no-one knows the words to the official one) From …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Blogtalk Sponsorship
Thought I’d repost the Blogtalk ‘call for sponsorship’ post here in it’s entirety. We’re an attractive proposition and a worthy non-profit cause so please pass this on to your marketing / business development folk, it’ll be good blog karma if you do! “OK, now we’ve got a great venue, great invited speakers and great abstracts… …
When blogging goes bad…
Just reread Steve Krause’s When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Emailing Lists, Discussion, and Interaction and two things sprung to mind. Firstly this is absolutely critical reading for anyone considering blogging in teaching and learning, it’s a really good examination of blogs not working and that, in my book, is as valuable …
Edugadget
This is a pretty cool edublog that I just stumbled upon, “Edugadget – plain-talking technology reviews for teachers‘”. Lots of stuff on audioblogging, Skype, Wikipedia etc. which while it ‘aint that new to me would be v. popular with most of the teachers I know, worth a look, here’s the feed (although why a WordPress …
Blogtalk – Registrations now open
Registrations are now open for Blogtalk… and you’re not going to believe how much it won’t cost you for two of the best darn bloggin’ days you’ll ever have :D
The Journal of Community Informatics
The new issue of The Journal of Community Informatics is out now and full of very interesting articles… but, with no full text (just abstracts) sadly… so I’ll be unsubscribing. I really think that this is a bit messed up, if you’re going to send out email updates of new issues you should at the …
Places to Go…
I’m totally hugely flattered and chuffed that Stephen chose IncSub and this blog as the first destination of his first ‘Places to Go’ slot at Innovate, here’s the article [serious blushing]. If you’re reading this coming along from Innovate, welcome aboard, have a look around and please feel free to join in!
Wiki / Aggregated Lesson Plans & Resources
Enjoyed an excellent chat with Ian Grove-Stephensen of Chalkface (a company which publishes online courses, lesson plans etc.) over Jabber today (using psi, which I’m swinging towards, explain more soon). All sorts of stuff came up but what particularly resonated for me was this age old approach of storing and sharing plans / materials and …
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Interview with a comment spammer…
For Alan, no wonder they didn’t come to you, too busy doing donuts in their jaguars???? “Sam – let’s call our interviewee Sam, it’s suitably anonymous – lives in a three-bedroom semi-detached house in London, drives a vintage Jaguar and runs his own company. But “it’s not not all rock and roll and big money”, …
Blogtalk Downunder Venue
Y’know… usually yacht clubs get me down a bit, all that opulence, greed, class-associated stuff, big boats sitting there and never going anywhere etc. etc. But when it comes to us hosting Blogtalk Downunder at the best damn location possible in Sydney, well…. I can put my prejudices aside for a minute, forget my roots, …